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contraconsciˈentious, a. rare.
[f. as prec.: cf. conscientious.]
= prec. Hence contraconsciˈentiously adv., against conscience.
1648W. Jenkyn Blind Guide iv. 71 You dealt very contra-conscientiously to say so. 1649Lightfoot Batt. Wasps Nest Wks. 1825 I. 422 He wickedly and, it is to be feared, contra-conscientiously wrests and wrings in John xiii. 1941Mind L. 56 The conscientious action..may always be better than the contra-conscientious even if it can never be right when the conscience is in error. Ibid., It is always better (although not necessarily right) for every man to act conscientiously than to act contra-conscientiously. |