conscience

  • 31conscience — conscienceless, adj. consciencelessly, adv. consciencelessness, n. /kon sheuhns/, n. 1. the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one s conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience. 2. the complex …

    Universalium

  • 32conscience — n. 1) to appeal to; arouse smb. s conscience 2) to have smt. on one s conscience 3) to ease one s conscience 4) a clear; guilty conscience (to have a guilty conscience) 5) a matter of conscience 6) in conscience (in all good conscience) * * * [… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 33conscience */*/ — UK [ˈkɒnʃ(ə)ns] / US [ˈkɑnʃəns] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms conscience : singular conscience plural consciences a) the ideas and feelings you have that tell you whether something you are doing is right or wrong Each person must vote… …

    English dictionary

  • 34conscience — n. 1 a moral sense of right and wrong esp. as felt by a person and affecting behaviour (my conscience won t allow me to do that). 2 an inner feeling as to the goodness or otherwise of one s behaviour (my conscience is clear; has a guilty… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 35conscience — con|science [ kanʃəns ] noun count or uncount ** the ideas and feelings you have that tell you whether something you are doing is right or wrong: Each person must vote according to his or her own conscience. The decision must be a matter of… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 36conscience — 01. My [conscience] would never allow me to sell my car without telling the buyer that it has major mechanical problems. 02. The man who sold you this house obviously has no [conscience]; it is really in bad shape. 03. Fonya had a guilty… …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 37Conscience —          CHIRAC (Jacques)     Bio express : Homme d État français (1932 )     «Les drames sans images, sans visages, ont peine à atteindre la conscience collective.»     Source : Discours, entretiens et autres sources     Mot(s) clé(s) :… …

    Dictionnaire des citations politiques

  • 38conscience — The modern understanding of conscience as a faculty by which past actions or dispositions are assessed or future actions evaluated, leading to experiences of guilt or of innocence, is not that of the Bible though that is not to say that the Bible …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 39conscience — The moral sense; the faculty of judging the moral qualities of actions, or of discriminating between right and wrong; particularly applied to one s perception and judgment of the moral qualities of his own conduct, but in a wider sense, denoting… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 40conscience — The moral sense; the faculty of judging the moral qualities of actions, or of discriminating between right and wrong; particularly applied to one s perception and judgment of the moral qualities of his own conduct, but in a wider sense, denoting… …

    Black's law dictionary