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Conscience Definition Definition of Conscience at Dictionary.com: "con⋅science  /ˈkɒnʃəns/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [kon-shuhns]
–noun 1.the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience.
2.the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.
3.an inhibiting sense of what is prudent: I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.
4.conscientiousness.
5.Obsolete. consciousness; self-knowledge.
6.Obsolete. strict and reverential observance.

—Idioms7.have something on one's conscience, to feel guilty about something, as an act that one considers wrong: She behaves as if she had something on her conscience.
8.in all conscience, a.in all reason and fairness.
b.certainly; assuredly.
Also, in conscience.

Origin:
1175–1225; ME < AF < L conscientia knowledge, awareness, conscience. See con-, science

Related forms:
con⋅science⋅less, adjective
con⋅science⋅less⋅ly, adverb
con⋅science⋅less⋅ness, noun Dictionary.com Unabridged"