| 单词 | nonconformist conscience |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnonconformist conscience nonconformist conscience n. now chiefly historical a strong and scrupulous sense of moral rectitude; the application of high moral standards to those in public, esp. political, life; cf. Puritan conscience n. at puritan n. and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1890 Let. in Times 28 Nov. 8/6 The minimum demand of the great Nonconformist party is the..abdication of Mr. Parnell... Nothing less will satisfy the Nonconformist conscience now. 1893 O. Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan iii. 90 There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. 1912 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 II. 320/2 In politics a radical, he helped to make the phrase ‘the nonconformist conscience’, by challenging the title to take part in political life of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke after the divorce case of Crawford v. Crawford in 1896. 1997 N. Ferguson Virtual Hist. (1998) iv. 243 The non-conformist conscience, the Cobdenite belief in free trade and peace..—these were just some of the Liberal traditions which seemed to imply a pacific policy. < as lemmas |
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