Conscience - definition, pronunciation, transcription

The thief must have had an attack of conscience, because he returned the wallet with nothing missing from it.

It was his guilty conscience that made him offer to help.

Well, at least I can face them all with a clear conscience (=when you know that you have done nothing wrong).

I can't tell you what to do - it's a matter of conscience (=something that you must make a moral judgment about).

The dog's sad look pricked her conscience (=made her feel guilty) and she took him home.

Ian felt a pang of conscience at having misjudged her.

They've no conscience at all about cheating.

Let your conscience guide you.

He was acting like someone with a guilty conscience.

...constrained by conscience to tell only the truth...

He was enjoined by his conscience from telling a lie.

...after a grapple with his conscience, he confessed to having an affair...

...horrific images of torture that shocked the conscience of the world...

Men who make no conscience of a lie, do yet take some bog at an oath.

Let us learn then to have a delicate conscience.