scrupule

Borrowed from Latin scrūpulus.

• IPA^(key): /skʁy.pyl/

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scrupule m (plural scrupules)

1. scruple, compunction, qualm

• sans scrupules

• “scrupule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskruː.pʊ.ɫɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskruː.pu.le]

scrūpule

1. vocative singular of scrūpulus