Scruples
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(Redirected from Scruple) Jump to: navigation, searchThe word scruples or scruple can mean:
- scruple – a doubt or hesitation that troubles the conscience or that comes from the difficulty of determining whether something is right
- scrupulosity Scrupulosity is a psychological disorder characterized by pathological guilt about moral or religious issues. It is personally distressing, objectively dysfunctional, and often accompanied by significant impairment in social functioning. It is typically conceptualized as a moral or religious form of obsessive–compulsive disorder , although this – obsessive concern with one's own sins and compulsive performance of religious devotion. Formerly this was called scruples or religious scruples, but now it is generally called scrupulosity.
- (Obsolete.) A unit of apothecary The apothecaries' system of weights is a historical system of mass units that were used by physicians and apothecaries for medical recipes, and also sometimes by scientists. The English version of the system is closely related with the English troy system of weights, the pound and grain being exactly the same in both. It divides a pound into 12 weight, with symbol ℈. It is a twenty-fourth part of an ounce, or 20 grains A grain is a unit of measurement of mass that is based upon the mass of a single seed of a typical cereal. Historically, in Europe, the average masses of wheat and barley grain were used to define units of mass, with the troy grain based on barley. Since 1958, the grain or troy grain measure has been redefined on the basis of the unit of mass of, or approximately 1.3 grams. More generally, any small quantity might be called a scruple.
- Scruples, a 1978 novel by Judith Krantz
- Scruples, 1980 television miniseries based on the novel and starring Lindsay Wagner
- Scruples, a 1984 board game by Henry Makow based on ethical dilemmas
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