Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having conscience.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having a conscience.
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- adjective Having a
conscience (of a particular kind).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Join in the murder of foreigners for your own fun and profit; conscienced behavior is overrated and so outmoded.
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He is not only not a fidgety, strait-laced, or mistaken-conscienced man on any subject; he always gives the mind its head.
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I say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be content to say it was for his country he did it to please his mother and to be partly proud; which he is, even till the altitude of his virtue.
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But woe is him if a nasty foe, or somebody trying to be one, annoyed for the moment with him, yet meaning no more harm than pepper, smite him to the quick, at venture, in his most retired and privy-conscienced hole.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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Two clean-shaven, clean-living, clean-conscienced young men, and they were tailing him.
A Maiden's Grave Deaver, Jeffery 1995
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Nothing of this is found in the Italian, -- and history fails of her dues at the hands of this tender-conscienced modernizer of Benvenuto.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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Each saw plainly a happy, care-free young earth girl, upon her first trip into space, locked inside an ether-wall with an over-brained, under-conscienced human machine -- a super-intelligent but lecherous and unmoral mechanism of flesh and blood, acknowledging no authority, ruled by nothing save his own scientific drivings and the almost equally powerful urges of his desires and passions!
Triplanetary 1927
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A more contradictory, obstinate, prickly-conscienced man never appeared in American politics.
American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917
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I say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be content to say it was for his country, he did it to please his mother, and to be partly proud; which he is, even to the altitude of his virtue.
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A more contradictory, obstinate, prickly-conscienced man never appeared in American politics.
American Men of Action Stevenson, Burton E 1913
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