Conscience

['kɒnʃ(ə)ns] or ['kɑnʃəns]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; 'a person of unflagging conscience'.

(noun.) a feeling of shame when you do something immoral; 'he has no conscience about his cruelty'.

(noun.) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions.

唐纳德錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.

(n.) The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.

(n.) The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.

(n.) Tenderness of feeling; pity.

贺拉斯校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Moral sense, moral faculty, the still small voice.

赫尔曼手打

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Sense, intuition, integrity, principle

ANT:[See PERTURB_and_STOICAL], license

格温錄入

解釋/意思:

n. the knowledge of our own acts and feelings as right or wrong: sense of duty: scrupulousness: (Shak.) understanding: the faculty or principle by which we distinguish right from wrong.—adjs. Con′science-proof unvisited by any compunctions of conscience; Con′science-smit′ten stung by conscience; Conscien′tious regulated by a regard to conscience: scrupulous.—adv. Conscien′tiously.—n. Conscien′tiousness.—adj. Con′scionable governed or regulated by conscience.—n. Con′scionableness.—adv. Con′scionably.—Conscience clause a clause in a law affecting religious matters to relieve persons of conscientious scruples esp. one to prevent their children being compelled to undergo particular religious instruction; Conscience money money given to relieve the conscience by discharging a claim previously evaded; Case of conscience a question in casuistry.—Good or Bad conscience an approving or reproving conscience.—In all conscience certainly: (coll.) by all that is right and fair.—Make a matter of conscience to act according to conscience: to have scruples about.—My conscience! a vulgar exclamation of astonishment or an asseveration.—Speak one's conscience (Shak.) to speak frankly: to give one's opinion.

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