All 3 Uses of
scruples
in
Jane Eyre
- …you, all knowledge of the curse of the place; merely because I feared Adele never would have a governess to stay if she knew with what inmate she was housed, and my plans would not permit me to remove the maniac elsewhere — though I possess an old house, Ferndean Manor, even more retired and hidden than this, where I could have lodged her safely enough, had not a scruple about the unhealthiness of the situation, in the heart of a wood, made my conscience recoil from the arrangement.†
Chpt 27
- Now you had better go; for if you stay longer, you will perhaps irritate me afresh by some mistrustful scruple.†
Chpt 33 *
- You will see what impetus would be given to your efforts and mine by our physical and mental union in marriage: the only union that gives a character of permanent conformity to the destinies and designs of human beings; and, passing over all minor caprices — all trivial difficulties and delicacies of feeling — all scruple about the degree, kind, strength or tenderness of mere personal inclination — you will hasten to enter into that union at once.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(scruples) ethical or moral principles that discourage certain kinds of action