Definition of conscience

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Conscience (n.) Tenderness of feeling; pity.

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Impressive :: Impressive (a.) Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene..
Hurter :: Hurter (n.) An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin.
Self-reproached :: Self-reproached (a.) Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment.
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..
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..
Criminatory :: Criminatory (a.) Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience..
Evil :: Evil (n.) Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity..
Enlighten :: Enlighten (v. t.) To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding..
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..
Scandalous :: Scandalous (a.) Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
Scruple :: Scruple (v. i.) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience..
Conscienceless :: Conscienceless (a.) Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous.
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..
Compunct :: Compunct (a.) Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken.
Qualm :: Qualm (n.) A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.
Conscience :: Conscience (n.) The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.
Offend :: Offend (v. t.) To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience..
Confess :: Confess (v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience..
Honor :: Honor (n.) A nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with course of life correspondent thereto; strict conformity to the duty imposed by conscience, position, or privilege..
Compunctious :: Compunctious (a.) Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction..
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