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Definition of Scrupled
1. scruple [v] - See also: scruple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrupled
Literary usage of Scrupled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1875)
"... who ath not scrupled to profess, even in the very bosom of his native country,
that the English is the only nation in the world where political or civil ..."
2. The Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent. by William Roscoe (1797)
"... to regain their native residence, for which purpose they scrupled not, by all
possible means, to excite the resentment of other powers against it. ..."
3. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"Ecclesiastical habits and other matters scrupled. ... of the new made bishops,
whose name nominated and elected, scrupled the habits and the cap so ..."
4. The History of England by James Mackintosh, William Wallace, Robert Bell (1835)
"She scrupled not only being crowned by a protestant bishop, but being present at
the protestant coronation of her husband. Their mutual discontents, which ..."
5. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"... who scrupled 1 The Puritan was an iconoclast in all things which, from the
Puritan point of view, were un-Puritan, which as well comprehended his ..."
6. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"... thought the expression so harmless, that he scrupled not himself to make use
of it, in those elegant and devout hymns of his to God Almighty : IÙ ..."
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