scrupulus

“Wiswásí” is a man with scruples (scrupulus, a pebble in the shoe), e.g. one who fears that his ablutions were deficient, etc.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

"Wiswásí" is a man with scruples (scrupulus, a pebble in the shoe), e.g. one who fears that his ablutions were deficient, etc.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Many business owners realize the amount of the loan is to small so they try scrupulus practices like credit card advanced loans.

Equity--line 2010

Adrertit is scrupulus virum erudi - tnm, quem ut ejiciat, non ea iide, qua agere religiosum antiquarium oportet,

Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792

'unus adhuc scrupulus habet animum meum, ne sub obtentu priscæ literaturæ renascentis caput erigere conetur Paganismus, ut sunt inter Christianos qui titulo pæne duntaxat Christum agnoscunt, ceterum intus Gentilitatem spirant' -- Letter 207

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

“scrupulus,” was properly a stone or small piece of gravel which, getting into the shoe, hurt the foot; hence the word figuratively came to mean a “scruple,” “difficulty,” or “doubt.”

The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847