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- noun Plural form of
conscience .
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Examples
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Zenawi's "pardon" may be "real" to his Western donors who want to ease their guilty-as-sin consciences for providing billions to support his dictatorship.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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Zenawi's "pardon" may be "real" to his Western donors who want to ease their guilty-as-sin consciences for providing billions to support his dictatorship.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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Zenawi's "pardon" may be "real" to his Western donors who want to ease their guilty-as-sin consciences for providing billions to support his dictatorship.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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Zenawi's "pardon" may be "real" to his Western donors who want to ease their guilty-as-sin consciences for providing billions to support his dictatorship.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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That prisoners were forced to perform sexual acts that violate their religious principles and personal consciences is particularly heinous.
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That prisoners were forced to perform sexual acts that violate their religious principles and personal consciences is particularly heinous.
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That prisoners were forced to perform sexual acts that violate their religious principles and personal consciences is particularly heinous.
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Note, Injuries done to Christians are injuries to Christ, especially to babes in Christ, to weak Christians; and most of all, involving them in guilt: wounding their consciences is wounding him.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Spirit of the Lord of hosts, whose work on men's consciences is mighty to the pulling down of strong-holds; thus the excellency of the power is of God, and not of man.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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The torment of those in hell, or that have a hell within them in their own consciences, is without interruption; the smoke of this fire goes up for ever.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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