scrupling
verb
- 1
To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.
- 2
To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
- 3
To regard with suspicion; to question.
- 4
To question the truth of (a fact, etc.); to doubt; to hesitate to believe, to question.
“I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.”
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