Dictionary entry

Scruple (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Scru″ple, v. t. 1. To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.

Others long before them... scrupled more the books of heretics than of gentiles. Milton.

2. To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

Letters which did still scruple many of them. E. Symmons.