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noun. An awareness of morality in regard to one's behavior; a sense of right and wrong that urges one to act morally.

noun. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement.

noun. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct.

noun. The part of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature of one's actions and thoughts and then transmits such determinations to the ego for consideration.

noun. Consciousness or awareness of something.

idiom. (in (all good) conscience) In all fairness; by any reasonable standard.

idiom. (on (one's) conscience) Causing one to feel guilty or uneasy.

noun. Consciousness; knowledge.

noun. Private or inward thoughts; real sentiments.

noun. The consciousness that the acts for which a person believes himself to be responsible do or do not conform to his ideal of right; the moral judgment of the individual applied to his own conduct, in distinction from his perception of right and wrong in the abstract, and in the conduct of others.

noun. Moral sense; scrupulosity; conformity to one's own sense of right in conduct, or to that of the community.

noun. Tender feeling; pity.

noun. Same as breastplate, A bellarmine.

noun. Most certainly; assuredly.

noun. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.

noun. The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.

noun. The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.

noun. Tenderness of feeling; pity.

noun. a clause in a general law exempting persons whose religious scruples forbid compliance therewith, -- as from taking judicial oaths, rendering military service, etc.

noun. stolen or wrongfully acquired money that is voluntarily restored to the rightful possessor. Such money paid into the United States treasury by unknown debtors is called the Conscience fund.

noun. a court established for the recovery of small debts, in London and other trading cities and districts.

noun. in deference or obedience to conscience or reason; in reason; reasonably.

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noun. to act according to the dictates of conscience concerning (any matter), or to scruple to act contrary to its dictates.

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noun. The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour; inwit.

noun. A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.

noun. Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.

noun. conformity to one's own sense of right conduct

noun. motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions

noun. a feeling of shame when you do something immoral

""I know that Elise has a conscience that will hold her fast to duty," said Benigna, but she did not speak hopefully: she spoke deliberately, however, thinking that these words _conscience_ and _duty_ might arrest the minister's attention, and that he would perhaps, by some means, throw light upon questions which were constantly becoming more perplexing to her."

a bad conscience  a good conscience  case of conscience  clear conscience  conscience clause  

in all conscience  to make a matter of conscience  

conscientious  conscientiously  conscientiousness  

consciencelike  pang of conscience  

shame  

affection  feeling  honesty  honor  imagination  

anima  censor  coconscious  collective unconscious  compunction