conscience - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • sear: Not a seared conscience that's lost all sensitivity.
  • awaken: It is not to be supposed that Satan would convince men of sin or awaken the conscience.
  • stir: Open inspection of the papers amply confirmed Judge Babington's conclusions and stirred the public conscience.
  • violate: You can rationalize, trying to justify yourself in your own mind, but a violated conscience will not be easily convinced.
  • satisfy: I think most of us go to prayer only from this principle to satisfy a natural conscience.

Adjective modifier

  • guilty: Does a guilty conscience stop you enjoying your food?
  • philosophic: In this connection, the agenda of the Congress raised that scores must be settled with the old philosophic conscience.
  • collective: The legitimacy of the World Tribunal on Iraq is located in the collective conscience of humanity.
  • uneasy: If attempts at suicide are any indication of guilt, this man must have a very uneasy conscience.
  • enlightened: The word was not defined but it essentially meant scientific and moral advance on the Western model, based on the enlightened conscience.
  • clear: A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Modifies a noun

  • sake: Wherefore [ ye ] must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
  • clause: The idea of a conscience clause needs to be very carefully considered.
  • void: Intellectual guidance in a specific issue depends upon a conscience void of offense toward God in general.

Noun used with modifier

  • tender: There is a twofold shame: the shame of a guilty conscience, and the shame of a tender conscience.

Possessives

  • sake: Rulers are empowered to punish and do it for conscience's sake.

Preposition: of

  • mankind: The conscience of mankind has been witness that we cannot celebrate war itself, however proudly we may remember the dead.
  • humanity: The legitimacy of the World Tribunal on Iraq is located in the collective conscience of humanity.
  • sin: Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

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