Scrupling

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scruple \Scru"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scrupled}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Scrupling}.]
     To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on
     account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
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           We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those
           things which lawfully we may.            --Fuller.
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           Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine
           worship.                                 --South.
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