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conscience

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con·science  (knshns)
n.
1.
a. The awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong: Let your conscience be your guide.
b. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement: a document that serves as the nation's conscience.
c. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct: a person of unflagging conscience.
2. The part of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature of one's actions and thoughts and then transmits such determinations to the ego for consideration.
3. Obsolete Consciousness.
Idiom:
in (all good) conscience
In all truth or fairness.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cnscientia, from cnscins, cnscient-, present participle of cnscre, to be conscious of : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + scre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots.]

conscience·less adj.

conscience
Noun
1. the sense of right and wrong that governs a person's thoughts and actions
2. a feeling of guilt: he showed no hint of conscience over the suffering he had inflicted
3. in (all) conscience in fairness
4. on one's conscience causing feelings of guilt [Latin conscire to know]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.conscienceconscience - motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
superego - (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience
ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality - motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
small voice, voice of conscience, wee small voice - an inner voice that judges your behavior
sense of duty, sense of shame - a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
2.conscience - conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging conscience"
morality - concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct
conscientiousness - the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience
unconscientiousness - the quality of being willing to ignore the dictates of conscience
3.conscience - a feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty"
shame - a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt

conscience
noun 1. principles, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong, still small voice
2. guilt, shame, regret, remorse, contrition, self-reproach, self-condemnation in all conscience in fairness, rightly, certainly, fairly, truly, honestly, in truth, assuredly
Translations

conscience [ˈkɔnʃəns] nconciencia;
in all conscience → en conciencia
conscience [ˈkɔnʃəns] nconscience f;
in all conscience → en conscience
conscience [ˈkɔnʃəns] nGewissen nt;
to have a guilty/clear conscience → ein schlechtes/gutes Gewissen haben;
in all conscience → allen Ernstes
conscience [ˈkɔnʃəns] ncoscienza;
in all conscience → onestamente, in coscienza

conscience
n conscience [ˈkonʃəns]
(that part of one's mind which holds one's) knowledge or sense of right and wrong The injured man was on her conscience because she was responsible for the accident; She had a guilty conscience about the injured man; He had no conscience about dismissing the men.gewete, konsensieضَميرсъвестsvědomísamvittigheddas Gewissenσυνείδησηconcienciasüdametunnistusوجدانomatuntoconscienceמַצפּוּןअंतरात्माsavjestlelkiismeretnuranisamviskacoscienza良心양심sąžinėsirdsapziņahati nuranigewetensamvittighetsumienieconsciênciaconştiinţă; cunoştinţăсовестьsvedomievestsavestsamveteความรู้สึกผิดชอบชั่วดีvicdan良心совість; сумлінняضميرlương tâm

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But Soothness pricked on his palfrey and passed them all and came to the King's court, where he told Conscience all about the matter, and Conscience told the King.
Lord Dawlish, if he had been able to diagnose correctly the almost paternal attitude which had become his host's normal manner these days, would have been equally embarrassed but less startled, for conscience had already suggested to him from time to time that he had been guilty of a feeling toward Elizabeth warmer than any feeling that should come to an engaged man.
And this is the Hungry Tiger, the terror of the jungle, who longs to devour fat babies but is prevented by his conscience from doing so.
 
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