Definition of conscience

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Conscience (n.) The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.

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Scruple :: Scruple (v. i.) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience..
Criminatory :: Criminatory (a.) Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience..
Erinys :: Erinys (n.) An avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified..
Qualm :: Qualm (n.) A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.
Self-reproached :: Self-reproached (a.) Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment.
Scruple :: Scruple (n.) Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience..
Conscience :: Conscience (n.) Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.
Offend :: Offend (v. t.) To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience..
Immoral :: Immoral (a.) Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed..
Compunction :: Compunction (n.) A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience.
Cauterize :: Cauterize (v. t.) To sear, as the conscience..
Self-reproved :: Self-reproved (a.) Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.
Conscionable :: Conscionable (a.) Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just..
Conscience :: Conscience (n.) Tenderness of feeling; pity.
Disregard :: Disregard (v. t.) Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience..
Conscientious :: Conscientious (a.) Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person..
Convict :: Convict (v. t.) To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience..
Confess :: Confess (v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience..
Conscienced :: Conscienced (a.) Having a conscience.
Remorse :: Remorse (n.) The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life..
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