All 7 Uses of
scrupulous
in
Mansfield Park
- There could be no harm in what had been done in so many respectable families, and by so many women of the first consideration; and it must be scrupulousness run mad that could see anything to censure in a plan like theirs, comprehending only brothers and sisters and intimate friends, and which would never be heard of beyond themselves.†
Chpt 13
- Three of the characters were now cast, besides Mr. Rushworth, who was always answered for by Maria as willing to do anything; when Julia, meaning, like her sister, to be Agatha, began to be scrupulous on Miss Crawford's account.†
Chpt 14
- Oh! she might think the difference between us—the difference in our situations—that she need not be so scrupulous as I might feel necessary.†
Chpt 15
- with a most scrupulous fear of being late
Chpt 23 *scrupulous = characterized by extreme care
- …mother, brothers and sisters, of whom she very seldom heard; who was interested in all the comforts and all the little hardships of her home at Mansfield; ready to think of every member of that home as she directed, or differing only by a less scrupulous opinion, and more noisy abuse of their aunt Norris, and with whom (perhaps the dearest indulgence of the whole) all the evil and good of their earliest years could be gone over again, and every former united pain and pleasure retraced…†
Chpt 24
- Meanwhile, he saw enough of Fanny's embarrassment to make him scrupulously guard against exciting it a second time, by any word, or look, or movement.†
Chpt 34
- As a sister, so partial and so angry, and so little scrupulous of what she said, and in another light so triumphant and secure, she was in every way an object of painful alarm.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(scrupulous) careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)