Both Uses
qualms
in
Blood Brothers, by Nora Roberts
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- Without a qualm, he opened his father's wallet and helped himself to three singles and a five.†
p. 12.2 *qualm = feeling of uneasinesseditor's notes: Qualm is much more commonly used in the plural form, qualms.
- He denied it without a qualm.†
p. 138.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(qualms) feelings of uneasiness -- especially about whether it is right to do something
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely feeling qualms can reference a sudden feeling of nervousness. Even more rarely (and historically), a qualm referenced a mild state of nausea.