scruple-shop

Meaning

Noun

a place where religious matters are debated, particularly with the aim of relieving participants of their scruples of conscience

Origin

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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