Definition of "scrupling" [scrupling]

• Present participle of scruple. (verb)

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• "By creating the mechanism of "scrupling," individuals, individual congregation, and individual presbyteries can do pretty much whatever they want."
• "At the same time far be it from me to — hum — to put upon the fine feelings by which my partial friends are actuated, the slight of scrupling to admit that those offerings are — hum — highly acceptable."
• "I guess I was just scrupling at the suggestion that “emotional” development or detail should be construed as specifically appealing to the female reader, or to THE female reader, as a monolithic type."