"scruple-shop" meaning in English

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          "text": "Elinor, on the other hand, bred up amid a clamour of perpetual contention,—for the house of her mother’s family, in which her first years had been passed, was, in the language of the profane of those times, a scruple-shop, where the godly of all denominations held their conferences of contradiction,—had her mind early awakened to differences of opinion, and opposition of principle.",
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          "text": "Others are standing at the cross-roads of duty, and are perplexed with interesting questions of casuistry. One of the great divines of the seventeenth century was said to “keep a scruple-shop.” The Barclay had “a scruple-shop,” and the business done in it was considerable.",
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