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1617 J. Vicars tr. F. Herring Mischeefes Mysterie 92 The conscience-pricked prisoners did confesse.

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. vii. 287 A timorous, Conscience-harry'd..Wretch.

1788 H. L. Piozzi Diary 4 Apr. in Thraliana (1942) II. 714 Merry is..of elegant and airy Manners, but of a Melancholy and apparently Conscience-smitten Spirit.

1810 W. Sotheby Constance De Castile viii. viii. 127 Haply, 'twas conscience-haunted guilt, Blood of the brave, unjustly spilt.

1816 J. Austen Emma II. xvi. 302 She was more conscience-stricken about Jane Fairfax than she had often been. View more context for this quotation

1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies (1875) 37 Conscience-smitten for the little notice she had taken of her cousin.

1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways III. i. 5 The vagrant compassionateness of sentimentalists;—rich, idle, conscience-pricked or praise-catching.

1898 G. B. Shaw Perfect Wagnerite 64 Our guilty and conscience-ridden generations.

1913 J. S. Holden Life's Flood-tide v. 79 And with the dawning of this light there comes refuge and rest to the poor conscience-harried soul.

1929 S. Angus Relig. Quests of Graeco-Roman World vii. 122 Jesus' religion of the direct approach of every son, however sin-polluted and conscience-stricken, to a Father whose love required no pleader and was moved by deeper motives than merit.

1959 J. Cary Captive & Free 207 How typical she was. So nice, so gentle, so conscience-ridden, ripe for the slaughter.

1995 Georgia Straight 12 Oct. 38/5 Assassins is a cartoony mélange of stock espionage themes and characters: the reluctant, conscience-riddled killer; [etc.].

2003 Time Out N.Y. 24 Apr. 107/1 There is a grim logic when the conscience-haunted Jimmy..ends up in a haunted city.