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Definizione monolingua


scruple


Verb

scruple (third-person singular simple present scruples, present participle scrupling, simple past and past participle scrupled)


  1. (intransitive) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
    We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may. - Thomas Fuller.
    Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship. - Robert South.
  2. To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.
    Others long before them ... scrupled more the books of hereties than of gentiles. - John Milton.
  3. (obsolete) To doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc.).
    I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.
  4. To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
    Letters which did still scruple many of them. -E. Symmons.
Noun

scruple (plural scruples)


  1. (obsolete) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
  2. (obsolete) Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
    • Ca 1601–1608, Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II Scene 3 221–222
      Paroles: I have not, my lord, deserved it. Lafeu: Yes, good faith, evry dram of it, and I will not bate thee a scruple.
  3. Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience; to consider if something is ethical.
    He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples. - Thomas Babington Macaulay.
  4. (obsolete) A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.

Definizione dizionario scruple


avere scupolo
esitare
scrupolo
scupolo

Altri significati:
  To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.
  (intransitive) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience
  Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience; to consider if something is ethical.
  (obsolete) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
  (obsolete) A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
  (obsolete) To doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc.).
  To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
  (intransitive) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
  (obsolete) Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.

Traduzione scruple


avere scupolo ,esitare ,scrupolo ,scupolo

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