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单词 scrupler
释义 scrupler|ˈskruːplə(r)|
[f. scruple v. + -er1.]
One who scruples, one who has scruples.
Applied spec. to the Scots divines who objected to take the Abjuration Oath in 1712.
1631Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 295 Away then with those nice scruplers.1650J. Dury Just Re-proposals 20 To satisfie scruplers, all their scruples must be first known.1712T. Boston Acc. Life (1908) 191 There the lawfulness of the Oath of Abjuration was debated pro and con,..betwixt the scruplers and the clear brethren.1843Wodrow's Corr. II. 401 Warden.. refused to swear the Abjuration Oath, even after the change of its form in 1719, which induced the greater number of scruplers to take it.
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