Definition of Scrupler

1. n. One who scruples.

Definition of Scrupler

1. Noun. One who scruples. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scrupler

1. one who has scruples [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrupler

scruncher
scrunches
scrunchie
scrunchies
scrunching
scrunchy
scrunt
scrunted
scruntier
scrunting
scrunts
scrunty
scruple
scrupled
scrupleless
scrupler (current term)
scruplers
scruples
scrupling
scrupulist
scrupulists
scrupulize
scrupulized
scrupulizes
scrupulizing
scrupulosities
scrupulosity
scrupulous
scrupulously
scrupulousness

Literary usage of Scrupler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"In spite of all this, ' the wiser sort ' did not rapidly buy snares, and the 'scrupler sort' held tight their purses, BO that her majesty sent a somewhat ..."

2. Records of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A (1841)
"Accordingly the Synod having heard, and seriously considered, what was offered by the several Presbyteries, and several members finding that the scrupler ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1827)
"... and the garrison, invincible to his arms, was oppressed by a paltry artifice and a superstitious scrupler. ..."

4. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... the third part of a dram. To SCRUPLE, (skroo'-pl) ».n. To doubt; to hesitate. scrupler,(skroo'-pl-er) n.». A doubter ; one who has scruples. ..."

5. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1828)
"... be neither a proof of thorough attachment to the establishment, nor a means of keeping out of office even a known conscientious scrupler against many of ..."

6. A Portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1806)
"... became so troublesome in the army, both on account of their scruples against the idolatrous practices required of the soldiery, and their scrupler, ..."

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