synderesis

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  1. A technical term of the scholastic philosophy, signifying the innate principle in the moral consciousness of every man, which directs him to good and restrains him from evil. Baldwin, Dict, of Philos, and Psychol., II. 655.

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  1. Also synteresis, sinteresis; Greek συντησ, σ1ις, preservation.
 

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