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Scruple vs Demur - What's the difference?

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

is that scruple is (obsolete) to doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc) while demur is (obsolete) to cause delay to; to put off.

In lang=en terms the difference between scruple and demur

is that scruple is to be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience while demur is to scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk.

As nouns the difference between scruple and demur

is that scruple is (obsolete) a weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram while demur is stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.

As verbs the difference between scruple and demur

is that scruple is to be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience while demur is (obsolete) to linger; to stay; to tarry.

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.

    Anagrams

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    demur

    English

    Verb

    (demurr)
  • (obsolete) To linger; to stay; to tarry
  • * Nicols
  • Yet durst not demur nor abide upon the camp.
  • To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.
  • * Hayward
  • Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur .
  • To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk
  • I demur to that statement.
    The personnel demurred at the management's new scheme.
  • (legal) To interpose a demurrer.
  • (obsolete) To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about
  • The latter I demur , for in their looks / Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears. -
  • (obsolete) To cause delay to; to put off
  • * Quarles
  • He demands a fee, / And then demurs me with a vain delay.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.
  • All my demurs but double his attacks; At last he whispers, ``Do; and we go snacks.'' -
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 132:
  • Most geologists today would accept such evidence without demur , but it was still ‘fringe’ science when du Toit was publishing.

    Derived terms

    * demureness

    References

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