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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a conscientious manner; according to the dictates of conscience; with a strict regard to right and wrong.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a conscientious manner; attentively.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with extreme conscientiousness

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Examples

  • As soon as I reached Washington, Miss Anthony ordered me to remain conscientiously in my own apartment and to prepare a speech for delivery before the committees of the Senate and House, and another, as President, for the opening of the council.

    Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

  • He pronounced the word conscientiously to punish himself for dreading it.

    The Desert and the Sown Mary Hallock Foote 1892

  • The old man did not conceal from himself that it was hard, cruelly hard, for the physician to follow his calling conscientiously at such a time; but he knew his friend; he had seen him during months of pestilence two years since -- always brisk, decisive and gay, indeed inspired to greater effort by the greater demands on him.

    The Bride of the Nile — Volume 09 Georg Ebers 1867

  • The old man did not conceal from himself that it was hard, cruelly hard, for the physician to follow his calling conscientiously at such a time; but he knew his friend; he had seen him during months of pestilence two years since -- always brisk, decisive and gay, indeed inspired to greater effort by the greater demands on him.

    The Bride of the Nile — Volume 09 Georg Ebers 1867

  • The old man did not conceal from himself that it was hard, cruelly hard, for the physician to follow his calling conscientiously at such a time; but he knew his friend; he had seen him during months of pestilence two years since -- always brisk, decisive and gay, indeed inspired to greater effort by the greater demands on him.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • The old man did not conceal from himself that it was hard, cruelly hard, for the physician to follow his calling conscientiously at such a time; but he knew his friend; he had seen him during months of pestilence two years since -- always brisk, decisive and gay, indeed inspired to greater effort by the greater demands on him.

    The Bride of the Nile — Volume 09 Georg Ebers 1867

  • The old man did not conceal from himself that it was hard, cruelly hard, for the physician to follow his calling conscientiously at such a time; but he knew his friend; he had seen him during months of pestilence two years since -- always brisk, decisive and gay, indeed inspired to greater effort by the greater demands on him.

    The Bride of the Nile — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • Yes, those who err unconsciously, who can do so conscientiously, that is, those who have no suspicion of their being in error.

    Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

  • A young bank clerk who accompanied Crawley to the office was a type of what I might call the conscientiously unprincipled man.

    A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith

  • There are some refusals which, though they may be done what is called conscientiously, yet carry so much of their whole horror in the very act of them, that a man must in doing them not only harden but slightly corrupt his heart.

    Tremendous Trifles 1905

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