Conscience definition
A document that serves as the nation's conscience.
A person of unflagging conscience.
An example of conscience is the personal ethics that keep you from cheating on an exam.
Let your conscience be your guide.
Let your conscience be your guide.
A person of unflagging conscience.
A document that serves as the nation's conscience.
- In all fairness; by any reasonable standard.
- Causing one to feel guilty or uneasy.
- in fairness; on any reasonable ground
- causing one to feel guilty
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Origin of conscience
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From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”), from com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”).
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