conscience

conscience
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ clean (esp. AmE), clear, easy, good
▪

How can you do your job with a clean conscience?

▪

I have a clear conscience.

▪ bad, guilty, troubled, uneasy
▪

a dying man with a guilty conscience

▪ civic, environmental, moral, political, social
▪

consumers with an environmental conscience

▪

a government with no social conscience

▪ religious
▪

a seminal conference on religious conscience and poverty

▪ tender
▪

I never knew a more tender conscience on every point of duty.

▪ collective
▪

the collective conscience of American business

▪ individual
▪

It should be a matter of individual conscience.

VERB + CONSCIENCE
▪ have
▪

He had no conscience about taking his brother's money.

▪ appease, assuage, clear, ease, salve, soothe
▪

We assuaged our conscience by telling ourselves that they would be worse off without us.

▪

To clear my conscience and make it up to you, I'd like to take you out to dinner.

▪

After the meal she spent a week dieting to salve her conscience.

▪ prick, trouble
▪ appeal to, arouse, awaken, rouse, stir
▪ shock
▪

a bill which has shocked the conscience of every middle-class community

▪ wrestle with
▪

He wrestled with his conscience all night long.

▪ follow
▪

I have only ever followed my conscience.

▪ examine
▪

At the end of each day, examine your conscience.

CONSCIENCE + VERB
▪ guide sb/sth, tell sb sth
▪

He felt his conscience telling him to apologize.

▪

It's important to let your conscience guide your decisions.

▪ bother sb, prick sb (esp. BrE), trouble sb (esp. BrE)
▪

Her conscience was bothering her a little.

▪

Her conscience pricked her every time she thought of how cruel she had been to Kirby.

▪ dictate sth
▪

My conscience dictates that I resign.

PREPOSITION
▪ on your conscience
▪

I'm sure she has something on her conscience.

▪

It was on his conscience that he hadn't called her.

PHRASES
▪ an act of conscience (esp. AmE)
▪

His decision appears to have been an act of conscience.

▪ an attack of conscience
▪

Best came forward because of an attack of conscience.

▪ a crisis of conscience
▪ freedom of conscience, liberty of conscience
▪ in all conscience, in conscience, in good conscience (= honestly)
▪

We cannot in all conscience refuse to help.

▪ let conscience be your guide
▪ a matter of conscience
▪

This question is a matter of individual conscience.

▪ man/woman/people of conscience
▪

How could people of conscience allow this to happen?

▪ a pang of conscience, a prick of conscience (BrE), a twinge of conscience (esp. BrE)
▪

I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell the truth.

▪ the right of conscience, the rights of conscience (both AmE)
▪

individual rights and rights of conscience on our campuses of higher education

▪ the voice of conscience
▪

She refused to listen to the voice of conscience.


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