English Dictionary

scruple

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈskɹuːpəl/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 廃用

(intransitive) To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience. / (intransitive) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

日本語の意味

（自動詞）良心や状況を考慮して行動するのをためらう、躊躇する / （自動詞）～に良心の呵責を感じさせる、ためらいを起こさせる

She scrupled before signing the contract, worried about potential hidden clauses.

彼女は契約に署名する前にためらって、隠れた条項があるのではないかと心配していた。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.

But the Tenderneſs, we have to deal with, is quite of another Nature, being ſuch as one as makes Men ſcruple at the Lawfulneſs of a Set Form of Divine Worship, at the Uſe of ſome Solemn Rites and Ceremonies in the Service of God; but makes them not ſtick at all at Sacrilege, which St. Paul equates to Idolatry; […]

意味（2）

(intransitive) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

It is granted indeed before that time, the Supream power was in Him [Charles I of England], and we were all his Subjects: and then perhaps ſome might Scruple to cut his throat, for there were lawes then in force against Regicides, but now ſince his Reſignation, (for ſo in our Tenents we hold this Act to be,) there is no ſcruple to be made, thoſe lawes against King-killers are ſuſpended, and he is now become as Samſon was without his ſtrength, […]

意味（3）

(transitive) To regard with suspicion; to question.

As for the writings of Heathen authors, unleſſe they were plaine invectives againſt Chriſtianity, as thoſe of Porphyrius and Proclus, they met with no interdict that can be cited, till about the year 400, in a Carthaginian Councel, wherein Biſhops themſelves were forbid to read the Books of Gentiles, but Hereſies they might read: while others long before them on the contrary ſcrupl'd more the Books of Hereticks, then of Gentiles.

意味（4）

(intransitive, obsolete) 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.

scruples （ present singular third-person ）

scrupling （ participle present ）

scrupled （ participle past ）

scrupled （ past ）