[Ads-l] "scruple, v." -- where does this fit?

[Dan Goncharoff]

I take it to mean "decline" or "refuse", or "hesitate to accept".
On Jun 3, 2016 9:29 PM, "Joel Berson" <berson at att.net> wrote:

> To what sense, if any, of 'scruple, v." does the following fit?  It seems
> to be specific to financial transactions.
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> "The £5 bill I Scrupled in my former was received by Bennet But if its
> Scrupled I must take it again, it has not een Scrupled yet that I hear."
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> (I assume that the £5 bill referred to  is a private bill of exchange, the
> evidence of £5 owned by some original debtor to some creditor.)
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