Pang vs Scruple - What's the difference?
pang | scruple |
(often, pluralized) paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; sudden and transitory agony; throe
* 1591 , , Henry VI, Part II , act 3, sc. 3,
* 1888 , , "The Nightingale and the Rose" in The Happy Prince and Other Tales ,
(often, pluralized) A sharp, sudden feeling of a mental or emotional nature, as of joy or sorrow
* 1867 , , The Guardian Angel , ch. 7,
to torment; to torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering
* 1918 , , "On Unanswering Letters" in Mince Pie ,
(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.
As nouns the difference between pang and scruple
is that pang is paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; sudden and transitory agony; throe while scruple is a weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.As verbs the difference between pang and scruple
is that pang is to torment; to torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering while scruple is to be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.pang
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- See, how the pangs of death do make him grin!
- So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her.
- He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of his demeanor.
Verb
- It panged him so to say good-bye when he had to leave.
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English
(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.