Definition of conscience

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Conscience (n.) Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.

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Conscience :: Conscience (n.) The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.
Confess :: Confess (v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience..
Unconscionable :: Unconscionable (a.) Not guided by, or conformed to, 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..
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..
Sting :: Sting (v. t.) To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite..
Cauterize :: Cauterize (v. t.) To sear, as the conscience..
Conscienceless :: Conscienceless (a.) Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous.
Compunction :: Compunction (n.) A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience.
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
Qualm :: Qualm (n.) A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.
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..
Quiet :: Quiet (a.) Not excited or anxious; calm; peaceful; placid; settled; as, a quiet life; a quiet conscience..
Bind :: Bind (v. t.) Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other..
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..
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