English Explanatory Dictionary

scruple-shop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A place where religious matters are debated, particularly with the aim of relieving participants of their scruples of conscience.

Word forms

scruple-shop scruple-shops

Etymology

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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