conscionable

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con·scio·na·ble

(kŏn′shə-nə-bəl)

adj.

1. Acceptable or permissible according to conscience: the debate over whether capital punishment is conscionable.

2. Conscientious; principled.

[Obsolete conscions (variant of conscience) + -able.]

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conscionable

(ˈkɒnʃənəbəl)

adj

obsolete acceptable to one's conscience

[C16: from conscions, obsolete form of conscience]

ˈconscionably adv

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con•scion•a•ble

(ˈkɒn ʃə nə bəl)

adj.

being in conformity with one's conscience; just.

[1540–50; conscion- (back formation from conscions, variant of conscience, the final -s taken for pl. sign) + -able]

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Adj.

conscionable - acceptable to your conscience

just - used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting; "a just and lasting peace"- A.Lincoln; "a kind and just man"; "a just reward"; "his just inheritance"

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The Black Lion, who, like old John, had been waiting supper past all reasonable and conscionable hours, hailed this as a philosophical discovery of the profoundest and most penetrating kind; and the table being already spread, they sat down to supper straightway.

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