conscience

[ UK /kˈɒnʃəns/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑnʃəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
  2. a feeling of shame when you do something immoral
    he has no conscience about his cruelty
  3. conformity to one's own sense of right conduct
    a person of unflagging conscience
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How To Use conscience In A Sentence

  • Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience
  • Their lack of conscience helps them a great deal. Times, Sunday Times
  • What seemed an easy task becomes complicated by locals' objections and, ultimately, the landman's own crisis of conscience.
  • Then, when cashiered out of the navy after refusing to follow orders which offended his conscience, he is visited by the mysterious benefactor who has shadowed him his entire life, who invites him to join a highly exclusive gentlemen's club, Redking's. REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker
  • Some of it is maybe "agenbite of inwit," the Middle English phrase meaning remorse of conscience. Rectitude Chic
  • All men have a moral conscience and want to be good, but often fail to avoid doing what is morally wrong. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • The opening door woke Roger, startled Patrick and gave the cat an unwonted and sudden attack of conscience. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • A bad conscience is a snake in one's heart. 
  • They acted out of a conscience that patriots despised but at least could understand.
  • And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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