Meaning of scruple-shop | Babel Free

Definitions

A place where religious matters are debated, particularly with the aim of relieving participants of their scruples of conscience.

obsolete

Examples

“The cure for diseased consciences is not to be found in a “scruple shop,” but in the love and care of the great Physician.”

“Elinor, on the other hand, bred up amid a clamour of perpetual contention,—for the house of her mother’s family, in which her first years had been passed, was, in the language of the profane of those times, a scruple-shop, where the godly of all denominations held their conferences of contradiction,—had her mind early awakened to differences of opinion, and opposition of principle.”

“Others are standing at the cross-roads of duty, and are perplexed with interesting questions of casuistry. One of the great divines of the seventeenth century was said to “keep a scruple-shop.” The Barclay had “a scruple-shop,” and the business done in it was considerable.”

“The world is not a scruple shop, said Carlyle; and Cornewall Lewis could speak of Government as a rough business in which they who practise it cannot always adhere to the morals of the classroom.”

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