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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conscience \Con"science\, n. [F. conscience, fr. L. conscientia, fr. consciens, p. pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire to know. See Science.]
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Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.
The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.
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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.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.
--Shak.As science means knowledge, conscience etymologically means self-knowledge . . . But the English word implies a moral standard of action in the mind as well as a consciousness of our own actions. . . . Conscience is the reason, employed about questions of right and wrong, and accompanied with the sentiments of approbation and condemnation.
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The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.
Conscience supposes the existence of some such [i.e., moral] faculty, and properly signifies our consciousness of having acted agreeably or contrary to its directions.
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Tenderness of feeling; pity. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.Conscience clause, a clause in a general law exempting persons whose religious scruples forbid compliance therewith, -- as from taking judicial oaths, rendering military service, etc.
Conscience money, stolen or wrongfully acquired money that is voluntarily restored to the rightful possessor. Such money paid into the United States treasury by unknown debtors is called the Conscience fund.
Court of Conscience, a court established for the recovery of small debts, in London and other trading cities and districts. [Eng.]
--Blackstone.In conscience, In all conscience, in deference or obedience to conscience or reason; in reason; reasonably. ``This is enough in conscience.''
--Howell. ``Half a dozen fools are, in all conscience, as many as you should require.''
--Swift.To make conscience of, To make a matter of conscience, to act according to the dictates of conscience concerning (any matter), or to scruple to act contrary to its dictates.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., from Old French conscience "conscience, innermost thoughts, desires, intentions; feelings" (12c.), from Latin conscientia "knowledge within oneself, sense of right, a moral sense," from conscientem (nominative consciens), present participle of conscire "be (mutually) aware," from com- "with," or "thoroughly" (see com-) + scire "to know" (see science).\n
\nProbably a loan-translation of Greek syneidesis, literally "with-knowledge." Sometimes nativized in Old English/Middle English as inwit. Russian also uses a loan-translation, so-vest, "conscience," literally "with-knowledge."
Wiktionary
n. The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour.
WordNet
n. motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions [syn: scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong]
conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging conscience"
a feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty"
Wikipedia
Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition or judgment that assists in distinguishing right from wrong. Moral judgment may derive from values or norms (principles and rules). In psychological terms conscience is often described as leading to feelings of remorse when a human commits actions that go against his/her moral values and to feelings of rectitude or integrity when actions conform to such norms. The extent to which conscience informs moral judgment before an action and whether such moral judgments are or should be based in reason has occasioned debate through much of the history of Western philosophy.
Religious views of conscience usually see it as linked to a morality inherent in all humans, to a beneficent universe and/or to divinity. The diverse ritualistic, mythical, doctrinal, legal, institutional and material features of religion may not necessarily cohere with experiential, emotive, spiritual or contemplative considerations about the origin and operation of conscience. Common secular or scientific views regard the capacity for conscience as probably genetically determined, with its subject probably learned or imprinted (like language) as part of a culture.
Commonly used metaphors for conscience include the "voice within" and the "inner light". Conscience, as is detailed in sections below, is a concept in national and international law, is increasingly conceived of as applying to the world as a whole, has motivated numerous notable acts for the public good and been the subject of many prominent examples of literature, music and film.
Conscience is a 1993 album by British pop band The Beloved. The album reached #2 on the UK Albums Chart on its release and includes " Sweet Harmony", the first single taken from it, being the first single from the band which entered the UK Top Ten, peaking at Number 8. Both are the highest positions ever reached by The Beloved in the UK with an album and with a single release.
Conscience is the fourth album by Womack & Womack, released in 1988, containing the hit single " Teardrops".
Conscience is a mental faculty that distinguishes right from wrong.
Conscience may also refer to:
Literature- Of Conscience, essay by Michel de Montaigne; see Essais, Book II, Chapter 5
- On Conscience book containing two essays by Pope Benedict XVI
- Conscience online magazine published by Catholics for Choice
- Conscience (The Beloved album)
- Conscience (Womack & Womack album)
- Conscience, a single by James Darren, released in 1962
- Conscience Records, a 1990s American record label
- Conscience, Canadian rapper in the collective Sweatshop Union
- Conscience (1910 film), by Van Dyke Brooke, also called Conscience; or, The Baker Boy
- Conscience (1911 film), by D.W. Griffith
- Conscience (1912 film), by Van Dyke Brooke
- Conscience (1913 film), distributed by Universal Film Manufacturing Company
- Conscience (1914 film), by Walter Edwards
- Conscience (1915 film), by Stuart Paton
- Conscience (1917 film), by Bertram Bracken
- La ruota del vizio, 1920 film by Augusto Genina
- Conscience (1935 film),by Robert Boudrioz
- Liang xin, 1961 film by Man Chan, released in English as Conscience
- Ndërgjegjja, 1972 by Hysen Hakani, released in English as Conscience
- Conscience (2008 film), 2008 Turkish film
- "Conscience" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Conscience: Taxes for Peace not War, London based peacebuilding organisation
- Conscience vote, a vote where legislators may vote according to their own personal conscience
- Social conscience
- Hendrik Conscience, a Belgian writer
Usage examples of "conscience".
She felt more than one pang of conscience as she agreed that Wickham was, indeed, abovestairs at that very moment, and, was moreover, slightly wounded from an accidentally self-inflicted gunshot.
Susanna Adams flew into a rage over the fact that Deacon John, in answer to his own conscience and feelings of responsibility as selectman, had brought a destitute young woman to live in the crowded household, the town having no means to provide for her.
Yet as before, Adams remained reluctant to profess his love for her, though it was from the heart that he wrote: May Heaven permit you and me to enjoy the cool of the evening of life in tranquility, undisturbed by the cares of politics and war--and above all with the sweetest of all reflections that neither ambition, nor vanity, nor any base motive, or sordid passion through the whole course of great and terrible events that have attended it, have drawn us aside from the line of duty and the dictates of our consciences.
Only those convicted by the ecclesiastical courts could be anathematised, while excommunication was a matter of conscience and people could in theory excommunicate themselves.
In his long traffic with the Angevin he had never known such sweet commerce between his conscience and his will as that which enabled him to earn merit with heaven by harrying his mortal enemy.
I do not confess anything to him because I did not examine my conscience sufficiently, and I answered him that I had nothing to say, but that if he liked I would commit a few sins for the purpose of having something to tell him in confession.
Hafner and Ardea in evening dress, with buttonhole bouquets, had the open and happy faces of two citizens who had clear consciences.
Having some qualms of conscience, he put on a secular dress, and on nearing Asuncion put his religious habit over it.
Quintus had left him for adventures in the vineyards, but some nagging shred of conscience told Sabinus that he should remain an observer at the bacchanal, not a participant.
This occasioned him to send for a Confessor from the Carthusian monastery, that he might have an opportunity of unburthening his conscience.
Elliot Rose, in Cases of Conscience, published in 1975, the year in which the Vietnam War ended, drew a parallel between Catholics who refused to conform in the reign of Elizabeth and James I, and protesters against the Vietnam War.
The cunning of this science consists in this,--that, after pointing out to men the coarsest false interpretations of the activity of the reason and conscience of man, it destroys in them faith in their own reason and conscience, and assures them that every thing which their reason and conscience say to them, that all that these have said to the loftiest representatives of man heretofore, ever since the world has existed,--that all this is conventional and subjective.
Indeed, it is a convenient thing to looke and plead for safety, when as the conscience doeth confesse the offence, as theeves and malefactors accustome to do.
As if, thought Dolley, his old friends wanted to atone for an action that their Quaker consciences had not quite been able to reconcile with the promptings of the Inner Light.
Their den is in the guilty mind, And Conscience feeds them with despair.