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Definition of conscience in English: consciencenoun ˈkɒnʃ(ə)nsˈkɑn(t)ʃəns A person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behaviour. he had a guilty conscience about his desires mass noun Ben was suffering a pang of conscience Example sentencesExamples - I have come to realise that he was born entirely without a conscience or a sense of remorse.
- After all, you have to leave an escape route for people's consciences.
- Instead, they only serve to ease the consciences of the well-to-do while keeping the poor out of sight.
- I think therefore that we in the media have to examine our consciences and say we have a responsibility here beyond informing the public.
- What the townspeople really suffer from are diseased consciences brought on by severe greed.
- Maybe these little selves are the voices on our shoulders, like our consciences or our morals.
- And they got the status of individuals but they don't have moral consciences like we do.
- Individuals will be far more free to vote their consciences without fearing economic harm.
- Our consciences and sensitivities have been deadened by too much drinking, he says.
- I hope the burglar will have a conscience and return these tapes, which are of no value to anybody else.
- Sweden is often held up as being a model of a democratic European country with a moral conscience.
- He could touch if he wanted to, and he did want to, so badly, but his conscience knew it was wrong.
- The whole legal system would collapse if even just a few lawyers begin to let their own moral consciences influence their work.
- There were people who had obviously suppressed their consciences for the rest of their lives after their actions.
- The common people, whose consciences are still alert, are the wheat.
- Does God create human beings with a conscience and moral reasoning powers and then leave them alone?
- Let the people vote for the president and vice president of their choice, in accordance with their consciences.
- Complex moral issues are better left to the consciences of elected members of parliament.
- Perhaps that is the only way the developed world can react - by digging into pockets and allowing consciences to be troubled.
- Maybe that may persuade them to examine their consciences.
Synonyms sense of right and wrong, sense of right, moral sense, still small voice, inner voice, voice within morals, standards, values, principles, ethics, creed, beliefs compunction, scruples, qualms
Phrases Given the fact that this is probably wrong; in fairness. how can we in all conscience justify the charging of fees for such a service? Example sentencesExamples - How, in all conscience, can the well-fed of the world, by turning what should be a choice into a global dictate, opt out of the new technologies that could provide the opportunity for all the world's people to be well-fed?
- It is very well to say that the respondent ought not in conscience to retain this money and that that consideration is enough to found an action for money had and received.
- In the end I could not in conscience take another appointment.
- And where, in all conscience, should they move on to?
- Britain's fishing ministers should, in all conscience, have accepted the total closure of the North Sea for the protection of threatened fish stocks.
- We also need to provide means whereby those who, in conscience, cannot accept their ministry, can continue to worship and serve God and his mission within the Church of England's fellowship.
- But in all conscience, as environment secretary, I can't recommend commercialisation.
- Journalists, more than anybody else, should know how terrifying these war crimes are, and I think we should, in all conscience, do what we can to create a global justice system which deters them from being committed.
- How could the council, in all conscience, have made an application to cull knowing that the only method previously tried to control the geese was asking people in the park not to feed them?
- I also wish to thank those Honourable members who in all conscience could not find it in their hearts to vote against the motion.
Synonyms properly, in fairness, correctly, legally, technically, in conscience, in all conscience
Weighing heavily and guiltily on one's mind. an act of providence had prevented him from having a death on his conscience Example sentencesExamples - And how would you feel to have their deaths on your conscience?
- But you immediately chose Hell as the one to which yours belongs, so I'm inclined to conclude, sir, that something must weigh very heavily on your conscience.
- If you did not accomplish something that could be seen as successful by others, then the sacrifices made by your family would be considered meaningless and it would reside on your conscience.
- The matter weighed on his conscience heavily, but he knew no other way of dealing with it.
- I like to imagine that nearly killing a four year old by your recklessness and stupidity would weigh on your conscience.
- This conviction sat heavily on her conscience.
- If he did, he's got enough to weigh on his conscience for another quarter of a century.
- He has a baby's death on his conscience for the rest of his days.
- I hope the blood of those killed will weigh on his conscience and keep him awake at night; he is the one man who will have blood on his hands.
- The consequences of her actions weighed heavily on her conscience, but she refused to feel guilty.
Origin Middle English (also in the sense 'inner thoughts or knowledge'): via Old French from Latin conscientia, from conscient- 'being privy to', from the verb conscire, from con- 'with' + scire 'know'. science from Middle English: Originally science was knowledge in general, or any branch of knowledge, including the arts, and the word is from Latin scire ‘to know’ (also found in conscience (Middle English) ‘inner knowledge’ and nice). The restricted modern sense of science, concentrating on the physical and natural world, dates from the 18th century. Science fiction was first mentioned in 1851, but this was an isolated use, and the term did not become common until the end of the 1920s, when US ‘pulp’ magazines (so called because of the cheap paper they were printed on) like Astounding Stories carried tales of space adventure. Before science fiction was coined the stories of writers such as Jules Verne were called scientific fiction or scientifiction.
Definition of conscience in US English: consciencenounˈkän(t)SHənsˈkɑn(t)ʃəns An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. he had a guilty conscience about his desires Ben was suffering a pang of conscience Example sentencesExamples - After all, you have to leave an escape route for people's consciences.
- Maybe these little selves are the voices on our shoulders, like our consciences or our morals.
- The common people, whose consciences are still alert, are the wheat.
- What the townspeople really suffer from are diseased consciences brought on by severe greed.
- Let the people vote for the president and vice president of their choice, in accordance with their consciences.
- And they got the status of individuals but they don't have moral consciences like we do.
- Maybe that may persuade them to examine their consciences.
- Perhaps that is the only way the developed world can react - by digging into pockets and allowing consciences to be troubled.
- Our consciences and sensitivities have been deadened by too much drinking, he says.
- Individuals will be far more free to vote their consciences without fearing economic harm.
- Does God create human beings with a conscience and moral reasoning powers and then leave them alone?
- I have come to realise that he was born entirely without a conscience or a sense of remorse.
- Instead, they only serve to ease the consciences of the well-to-do while keeping the poor out of sight.
- There were people who had obviously suppressed their consciences for the rest of their lives after their actions.
- The whole legal system would collapse if even just a few lawyers begin to let their own moral consciences influence their work.
- He could touch if he wanted to, and he did want to, so badly, but his conscience knew it was wrong.
- Complex moral issues are better left to the consciences of elected members of parliament.
- I think therefore that we in the media have to examine our consciences and say we have a responsibility here beyond informing the public.
- I hope the burglar will have a conscience and return these tapes, which are of no value to anybody else.
- Sweden is often held up as being a model of a democratic European country with a moral conscience.
Synonyms sense of right and wrong, sense of right, moral sense, still small voice, inner voice, voice within
Phrases By any reasonable standard; by all that is fair. they have in conscience done all they could Example sentencesExamples - I could not in good conscience participate in this behavior nor could I in good conscience willingly support those who participate in this behavior.
- ‘I marvel sometimes at the steadfastness of the whole Catholic body, at the discipline and obedience and love it has shown under a very demanding pope, the maturity of the decisions it makes in conscience,’ he wrote.
- But I don't understand a man who has been supportive of the administration's policies, and who has reached a decision in conscience, should be treated like this by anyone in this country.
- They may in conscience assume that decision-makers have weighed the moral and personal costs of using them in conflict against the weight of the national interests involved and deemed it an acceptable equation.
- And I cannot, in conscience, cooperate in the permanent corruption of our moral life - particularly at the hands of a professed Catholic.
- Absent such proof, I could not in conscience advise a young Catholic woman to rely on the method - not if she wished to plan her family in concert with paid employment.
- If a journalist finds that he cannot in conscience breach a confidential source, he should be prepared to spend some time in jail for that act of civil disobedience.
- I could not in good conscience allow this money to be used for the murder of innocent people.
- But I could not, in good conscience, have enjoyed that event then, if I did not do something, first.
- Those who in conscience cannot obey United Methodist Church law, law that has been confirmed once again to represent the mind of the church, should practice ecclesial disobedience, not civil disobedience.
Weighing heavily and guiltily on one's mind. an act of providence had prevented him from having a death on his conscience Example sentencesExamples - But you immediately chose Hell as the one to which yours belongs, so I'm inclined to conclude, sir, that something must weigh very heavily on your conscience.
- And how would you feel to have their deaths on your conscience?
- If he did, he's got enough to weigh on his conscience for another quarter of a century.
- I hope the blood of those killed will weigh on his conscience and keep him awake at night; he is the one man who will have blood on his hands.
- This conviction sat heavily on her conscience.
- The matter weighed on his conscience heavily, but he knew no other way of dealing with it.
- He has a baby's death on his conscience for the rest of his days.
- The consequences of her actions weighed heavily on her conscience, but she refused to feel guilty.
- If you did not accomplish something that could be seen as successful by others, then the sacrifices made by your family would be considered meaningless and it would reside on your conscience.
- I like to imagine that nearly killing a four year old by your recklessness and stupidity would weigh on your conscience.
Origin Middle English (also in the sense ‘inner thoughts or knowledge’): via Old French from Latin conscientia, from conscient- ‘being privy to’, from the verb conscire, from con- ‘with’ + scire ‘know’. |