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Definition of Scrupler
1. n. One who scruples.
Definition of Scrupler
1. Noun. One who scruples. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scrupler
1. one who has scruples [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrupler
Literary usage of Scrupler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"In spite of all this, ' the wiser sort ' did not rapidly buy snares, and
the 'scrupler sort' held tight their purses, BO that her majesty sent a somewhat ..."
2. Records of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A (1841)
"Accordingly the Synod having heard, and seriously considered, what was offered
by the several Presbyteries, and several members finding that the scrupler ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1827)
"... and the garrison, invincible to his arms, was oppressed by a paltry artifice
and a superstitious scrupler. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... the third part of a dram. To SCRUPLE, (skroo'-pl) ».n. To doubt; to hesitate.
scrupler,(skroo'-pl-er) n.». A doubter ; one who has scruples. ..."
5. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1828)
"... be neither a proof of thorough attachment to the establishment, nor a means
of keeping out of office even a known conscientious scrupler against many of ..."
6. A Portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1806)
"... became so troublesome in the army, both on account of their scruples against
the idolatrous practices required of the soldiery, and their scrupler, ..."
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