Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions.
Synonyms
Examples for "conscience"
Examples for "conscience"
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I do know, however, that conservatives could surely use his conscience today.
2
But my conscience is clear; I'm sure we did the right thing.
3
The prime minister says 'my conscience is clear' as he steps down
4
The young Clinton saw the war as an agonizing challenge to conscience.
5
They have all said they will 'vote with their conscience' on Tuesday.
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But in the intervening period his moral sense had got largely blunted.
2
He needed now but dedicate him in the moral sense to God.
3
Mrs. Stowe spoke to the understanding and moral sense through the imagination.
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The theory is contrary to the moral sense of all earnest souls.
5
He took malice in the moral sense, as importing a malevolent motive.
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You said she had a sense of right and wrong, Vienna said.
2
It warps the conscience, and confuses the sense of right and wrong.
3
Their judgment becomes warped; they lose all sense of right and wrong.
4
And the faculty, itself, I call a sense of right and wrong.
5
I don't know: I have lost the sense of right and wrong.
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This was for the purpose of allaying the scruples of the King.
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But no scruples entered the mind of the captain of the slaver.
3
Perhaps a complication concerning religious scruples, or maybe even a conflicting liability.
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In the treatment of the text, however, he has had no scruples.
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Mrs. Robert could not but smile at the idea of religious scruples.
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Louis felt none of the tender-hearted scruples of the brave old soldier.
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They may have conscientious scruples in the matter, which must be respected.
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Perhaps I was not wise in building such a wall of scruples.
9
Go to her again; you need not have any scruples with her.
10
But the accident that gave the death-blow to his scruples was another.
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When his religious scruples were finally offended, he was grave and unrelenting.
12
Mr. Adams replied that he had in that respect no scruples whatever.
13
To promote these objects he had no scruples in regard to means.
14
Dissolve two scruples flowers of Benzoin, in one quart of good rum.
15
Touching the initial affair with the squatters, he had no compunctious scruples.
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Gone were all the nerve clamorings and with them went his scruples.
