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The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision.

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  1. n. The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision.
  2. The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision. The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires. Dr. H. More. Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath. South.
  3. The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulnessrespecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far ofdoing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty;precision.The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have madethe breach, their scrupulosity soon retires. Dr. H. More.Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath. South.
  4. n. The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision.