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SCRUPLE
Unreasonable doubt about the morality of an act done or to be done. Its basis is an erroneous conscience combined with a lack of control of the emotion of fear. (Etym. Latin scrupulus, small, sharp stone, small weight, scruple, from scrupus, rough stone.)
