单词 | for conscience sake |
释义 | > as lemmasfor conscience('s) sake P2. for conscience('s) sake [19th-cent. grammarians introduced an apostrophe, conscience' , to indicate the possessive: see sake n.1 II.] : out of regard to the dictates of conscience, because of one's conscience. ΘΚΠ society > morality > [phrase] > for the sake of conscience for conscience('s) sakec1400 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > [phrase] > for the sake of conscience for conscience('s) sakec1400 c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. v. l. 99 For consciences sake. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. x. 25 What soever is solde in the market, that eate, and axe no questions for conscience sake. c1550 T. Becon Flour of Godly Praiers f. lxi Graunte that the subiectes may shewe all reuerent submission to theyr rulers, obey theym in all thynges, bee faythful and true to them, yea and that not onlye for feare of punyshmente but also for conscyence sake. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. iii. 34 The fourth would returne for Conscience sake . View more context for this quotation a1635 R. Corbet Iter Boreale in Certain Elegant Poems (1647) 12 His Mare went truer then his Chronicle; And even for Conscience sake unspurr'd, unbeaten, Brought us sixe miles, and turn'd taile to New-Eaton. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 87 All men would have Submitted to it for Conscience sake. 1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. iv. 107 You will suffer for Conscience-sake. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. iv. 372 Good Men ought to submit to the Ecclesiastical Powers that be, for Conscience-sake. 1770 J. Newton Rev. Eccl. Hist. ii. ii. 287 They exert all their strength and sublety to disquiet or suppress those who differ from them in the slightest circumstance, if they profess to differ for conscience-sake. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xi. 139 The nonjuring clergyman was a pensive and interesting old man, with much the air of a sufferer for conscience sake . View more context for this quotation 1831 J. S. Law Wrongs of Ireland 97 Irish millions under slavery groan, For conscience's sake, deprived of civil freedom, Because their faith, for lucre, won't mislead them. 1876 C. P. Mason Eng. Gram. (ed. 21) 28 Sometimes the possessive case in..nouns that end in s, x, or ce, is merely marked by placing an apostrophe after the word..But this practice is now nearly obsolete, except in a few common instances, as, ‘for conscience' sake’, ‘for goodness' sake’. 1903 Brit. Weekly 11 June 219/3 He was reluctantly compelled, for conscience sake, to refuse that part of the education rate which would go to the support of sectarian schools. 1945 W. G. Hole John Englishman 44 This particular trader, however, Happened to possess certain other qualities Which on occasion could transform him into a hero, A martyr for conscience' sake. 2007 Ledger (Lakeland, Florida) (Nexis) 18 Jan. b1 We understand these people for conscience's sake needed to leave, and we were not going to punish them for that. < as lemmas |
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