consciences.

The earnestness of her civilians should require no further proof than the readiness with which they accepted national conscription within a few hours of entering the war -- a revolutionising departure which it took England two years of fighting even to contemplate, and which can hardly be said to be in full operation yet, so long as conscientious objectors are allowed to air their so-called consciences.

Out To Win The Story of America in France Coningsby Dawson 1921

But I think it means that you ought all to have the same kind of consciences.

Mistress Anne Temple Bailey 1906