† ˈscrupleness Obs. rare.
Also 5 scrupulenes, 6 scrupulnes.
[irreg. f. scruple n. + -ness.]
Scrupulousness.
| 1489 Caxton Faytes of Armes iv. i. 230 To take awaye all scrupulenes. 1549 Compl. Scot. xix. 165, I exort ȝou..to put al cerimonial scrupulnes furtht of ȝour hartis. 1573–80 Tusser Husb. (1878) 69 (heading) Against fantasticall scruplenes. 1647 Hexham i, Scruplenesse of conscience. |