Definition of conscience

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

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Self-accused :: Self-accused (a.) Accused by one's self or by one's conscience.
Conscience :: Conscience (n.) 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..
Cauterize :: Cauterize (v. t.) To sear, as the conscience..
Conscientiousness :: Conscientiousness (n.) The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.
Unconscionable :: Unconscionable (a.) Not guided by, or conformed to, conscience..
Confess :: Confess (v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience..
Dictate :: Dictate (v. t.) A statement delivered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the gospel..
Obligatory :: Obligatory (a.) Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier..
Compunctious :: Compunctious (a.) Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction..
Conviction :: Conviction (n.) The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience..
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..
Self-reproached :: Self-reproached (a.) Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment.
Conscionable :: Conscionable (a.) Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just..
Conscientious :: Conscientious (a.) Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; -- said of actions.
Self-reproved :: Self-reproved (a.) Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.
Criminatory :: Criminatory (a.) Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience..
Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope..
Law :: Law (n.) In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature..
Conscienceless :: Conscienceless (a.) Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous.
Hurter :: Hurter (n.) An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin.
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