All 3 Uses of
scruples
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He saw her serious alluring eyes watching him from among the audience and their image at once swept away his scruples, leaving his will compact.†
Chpt 2 *
- To merge his life in the common tide of other lives was harder for him than any fasting or prayer and it was his constant failure to do this to his own satisfaction which caused in his soul at last a sensation of spiritual dryness together with a growth of doubts and scruples.†
Chpt 4
- Often when he had confessed his doubts and scruples—some momentary inattention at prayer, a movement of trivial anger in his soul, or a subtle wilfulness in speech or act—he was bidden by his confessor to name some sin of his past life before absolution was given him.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(scruples) ethical or moral principles that discourage certain kinds of action