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Definition summary: Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.

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[Noun]
Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.
(pharmacy) A weight of 1⁄288 of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
A Hebrew unit of time equal to 1⁄1080 hour.
(obsolete, by extension) A very small quantity; a particle.
(obsolete) A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
[Verb]
(intransitive) To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.
(intransitive) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
(transitive) To regard with suspicion; to question.
(intransitive, obsolete) To question the truth of (a fact, etc.); to doubt; to hesitate to believe, to question.

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