conscience
IPA: kˈɑnʃʌns
noun
- The ethical or moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions.
- (chiefly fiction, narratology) 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.
- (obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
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Examples of "conscience" in Sentences
- They did not have a sense of conscience.
- From the latter came the guilty conscience.
- This is the basis of empathy and conscience.
- We hoped to arouse the conscience of the Nation.
- Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
- I spoke then both to and for the conscience of the world.
- The superego is considered the conscience, and a sense of morality.
- It is based in the idea that knowledge is latent in the human conscience.
- Additionally, they reasserted the Catholic principle of primacy of conscience.
- A business with a conscience and with its focus firmly on social amelioration.