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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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

Wiktionary

  1. adv. In a conscientious manner; attentively.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. with extreme conscientiousness

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

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

    The Desert and the Sown

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “To watch above her conscientiously was a harassing business.”

    The Tale of Chloe

  • “The public official does not identify the rule that would best promote her own preferences and then apply (or not apply) that rule; rather she "conscientiously" applies the rule that "ought" to govern the event.”

    The Economic Analysis of Law

  • “- “While Ms. Thompson did her job conscientiously, that is less clear of Mr. Biskupic.”

    NYT Editorial on US Atty Prosecution of Innocent Woman

  • “In his ruling Lord Justice Sedley said that the issue had been 'conscientiously' dealt with by BA, which offered to move Eweida to work without contact with the public.”

    OUT-LAW News

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