scruple-shop

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place where religious matters are debated, particularly with the aim of relieving participants of their scruples of conscience. obsolete
    — The cure for diseased consciences is not to be found in a “scruple shop,” but in the love and care of the great Physician.

词形变化

scruple-shops plural

词源

Compound of 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.
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