2. To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple. [R.] Letters which did still scruple many of them. E. Symmons.
SCRUPLER
Scru"pler, n.
Defn: One who scruples.
SCRUPULIST
Scru"pu*list, n.
Defn: A scrupler. [Obs.]
SCRUPULIZE
Scru"pu*lize, v. t.
Defn: To perplex with scruples; to regard with scruples. [Obs.] Bp.
Montagu.
SCRUPULOSITY
Scru`pu*los"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. scrupulositas.]
Defn: The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision. The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires. Dr. H. More. Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath. South.
SCRUPULOUS
Scru"pu*lous, a. Etym: [L. scrupulosus: cf. F. scrupuleux.]