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conscientiousness|kɒnʃɪˈɛnʃəsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The quality of being conscientious; loyalty to conscience.
One of the faculties to which phrenologists have allotted a special organ or region of the brain, held to produce the sentiment of obligation, duty, justice, and injustice.
a1631Donne in Selections (1840) 204 Is fraud, and circumvention so sure a way, of attaining God's blessings, as industry and conscientiousness is? 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 159 Any other Protestant that hath any profession of Conscientiousness. 1828G. Combe Constit. Man ii. §4 Conscientiousness stands in the midway between self and other individuals. 1868Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art Add. 206 A steady conscientiousness which seeks to do its duty wherever it may be placed.
†b. Const. of. Obs.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 179 Constancy of Faith, and conscienciousnesse of Duty. 1667H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxvii. (1713) 246 What an early Conscienciousness [I had] of approving my self to [God].
†2. = consciousness 2. Obs. rare.
1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 9 Who hazards the loss of being reputed a good man, that he might not loose the realitie, and conscientiousness of it. |