scruple-shop

English

Etymology

scruple +‎ shop. Originally applied derogatorily by Oxford students to a particular group of seven Presbyterian ministers who established weekly meetings to discuss questions of conscience in Oxford in 1646.

Noun

scruple-shop (plural scruple-shops)

(obsolete) a place where religious matters are debated, particularly with the aim of relieving participants of their scruples of conscience
- 1771, John Wesley, Works, volume 2, page 129:
  The cure for diseased consciences is not to be found in a “scruple shop,” but in the love and care of the great Physician.
- 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], OCLC 1202978654, page 223:
  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.
- 1904, James Wells, The Life of James Hood Wilson, D.D., page 157:
  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.
- 1945, A. C. Hill, Democratic Realism, page 132:
  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.

单词	scruple-shop
释义	scruple-shop English Etymology scruple +‎ shop. Originally applied derogatorily by Oxford students to a particular group of seven Presbyterian ministers who established weekly meetings to discuss questions of conscience in Oxford in 1646. Noun scruple-shop (plural scruple-shops) (obsolete) a place where religious matters are debated, particularly with the aim of relieving participants of their scruples of conscience 1771, John Wesley, Works, volume 2, page 129: The cure for diseased consciences is not to be found in a “scruple shop,” but in the love and care of the great Physician. 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], OCLC 1202978654, page 223: 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. 1904, James Wells, The Life of James Hood Wilson, D.D., page 157: 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. 1945, A. C. Hill, Democratic Realism, page 132: 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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