Doubt vs Scruple - What's the difference?
doubt | scruple | Synonyms |
Uncertainty, disbelief.
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(ambitransitive) To lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.
* Hooker
* Dryden
(archaic) To fear; to suspect.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.186:
(obsolete) To fear; to be apprehensive of.
* R. of Gloucester
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
(obsolete) To fill with fear; to affright.
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* Beaumont and Fletcher
(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
Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.
(obsolete) A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
A measurement of time. Hebrew culture broke the hour into 1080 scruples.
To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.
(obsolete) To doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc.).
To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
In obsolete terms the difference between doubt and scruple
is that doubt is to fill with fear; to affright while scruple is to doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc.).As nouns the difference between doubt and scruple
is that doubt is uncertainty, disbelief while scruple is a weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.As verbs the difference between doubt and scruple
is that doubt is to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect while scruple is to be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.doubt
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia doubt)- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts .
Verb
(en verb)- He doubted that was really what you meant.
- Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt
- To try your love and make you doubt of mine.
- He fled, like Joseph, leaving it; but there, / I doubt , all likeness ends between the pair.
- Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God.
- I doubt some foul play.
- I of doubted danger had no fear.
- The virtues of the valiant Caratach / More doubt me than all Britain.
Statistics
* English reporting verbsscruple
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
- He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples . - .
Synonyms
* (precise weight) * (small amount) see also .Derived terms
* scrupulous * unscrupulousVerb
(scrupl)- 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. - .
- Others long before them ... scrupled more the books of hereties than of gentiles. - .
- I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.
- Letters which did still scruple many of them. -E. Symmons.