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Boggle vs Scruple - What's the difference?

boggle | scruple |

In lang=en terms the difference between boggle and scruple

is that boggle is to confuse or mystify; overwhelm while scruple is to be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between boggle and scruple

is that boggle is (obsolete) to play fast and loose; to dissemble while scruple is (obsolete) to doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc).

As verbs the difference between boggle and scruple

is that boggle is to be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused while scruple is to be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.

As a noun scruple is

(obsolete) a weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

boggle

English

Verb

(boggl)
  • To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
    • He boggled at the surprising news.
    The mind boggles .
  • * Barrow
    • Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose.
  • * Glanvill
    • We start and boggle at every unusual appearance.
  • To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
    • The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
    The oddities of quantum mechanics can boggle the minds of students and experienced physicists alike.
  • (US, dialect) To embarrass with difficulties; to bungle or botch.
  • (obsolete) To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
    • (Howell)

    Derived terms

    * mindboggling

    scruple

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
  • (obsolete) Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
  • * Ca 1601–1608 , , As You Like It , Act II Scene 3 221–222
    • Paroles: I have not, my lord, deserved it.'' Lafeu: ''Yes, good faith, ev'ry dram of it, and I will not bate thee a scruple .
  • Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.
    • He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples . - .
  • (obsolete) A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
  • A measurement of time. Hebrew culture broke the hour into 1080 scruples.

    • Synonyms

    * (precise weight) * (small amount) see also .

    Derived terms

    * scrupulous * unscrupulous

    Verb

    (scrupl)
  • To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
    • We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may. - .
    Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship. - .
  • To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.
    • Others long before them ... scrupled more the books of hereties than of gentiles. - .
  • (obsolete) To doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc.).
    • I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.
  • To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
    • Letters which did still scruple many of them. -E. Symmons.

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