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conscience | American Dictionary

conscience
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈkɑn·ʃəns/
the feeling that you know and should do what is right and should avoid doing what is wrong, and that makes you feel guilty when you have done something you know is wrong:
[ C ]I have a guilty conscience for spending so little time with my kids.

Examples of conscience

conscience
As noted above, negative feelings play important roles in impulse control, empathy, and conscience.
Thus understood, conscience is unobjectionable but can claim no special dignity or respect.
Debates about the liberty of religious conscience turned into debates about freedom of the press and freedom of speech.
Only his own scientific conscience may guide the scholar.
While ' craft ' was a foil for ' conscience ', virtue and liberty were complemented by - indeed, unattainable without - true religion, which moderated the passions.
Matters of conscience could not be negotiated or treated, because the conscience was ' more dear ' than life.
As a sop to their leftwing supporters, and perhaps to their own consciences, they coupled these with largely ineffective anti-discriminatory race relations acts.
But as division hardened, the king had to acknowledge that his conscience and prayers articulated those of a party rather than the whole commonwealth.
Newly elected men wrestled with consciences or argued with colleagues and immediately declined or subsequently resigned the proferred position.
On this view, the physician in good conscience should make the decision, especially if patients are from educationally and socially disadvantaged groups.
The indulged reader can quickly scan past these tugs at the middle-class conscience should she wish to.
We can subsume it under the harm principle and so, with a clear liberal conscience, outlaw it after all.
The anarchy of the sects led others to distrust both scriptural politics and the appeal to individual conscience as forces of social instability.
The intensity of involvement was a matter for the consciences of individual professionals.
As an official voice of public health conscience empowered to take such measures as he deems necessary, he is well positioned to take action.
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Collocations withconscience

conscience

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collective conscience
This issue is embedded in the collective conscience, and, as we shall see, contentious recollections of what 'really ' happened have now started to circulate.
freedom of conscience
From a normative perspective, democracy requires freedom of conscience and freedom from coercion.
guilty conscience
But as the novel progresses, her fate seems overdetermined - as much the product of an archaic institution as that of a guilty conscience.
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