Definitions for conscience

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conscience con·science

Spelling: [kon-shuh ns]

IPA: /ˈkɒn ʃəns/

Conscience is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 191 anagrams from letters in conscience (ccceeinnos).

Definitions for conscience

noun

1. the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action:
2. the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.
3. an inhibiting sense of what is prudent:
4. conscientiousness.
5. Obsolete. consciousness; self-knowledge.
6. Obsolete. strict and reverential observance.

Idioms

1. have something on one's conscience, to feel guilty about something, as an act that one considers wrong:
2. in all conscience, in all reason and fairness. certainly; assuredly. Also, in conscience.

Origin of conscience

1175-1225; Middle English Anglo-French Latin conscientia knowledge, awareness, conscience. See con-, science

Examples for conscience

Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Oskar Schindler—these names come readily to mind when we think of heroes of conscience.

Yes, indeed; I got more by that means, than I should have had the conscience to ask.

Here stands its Government, aware of its might but obedient to its conscience.

In our own single manhood to be bold, Fortressed in conscience and impregnable.'

Better to be a beggar in freedom,” he cried out, “than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

But as Mr. Gladstone was then, so he has been all his life—the very Quixote of conscience.

As you put it, “letting some business owners exercise their conscience would cause no harm to gays.”

The distinctive principle of the book was that the State had a conscience.

Fellow Kurdish prisoners of conscience in other cities across Iran have followed suit.

At Big Apple Circus, a set of camels is as exotic as it gets, so your conscience can remain unsullied.