meaning of conscience
1. Knowledge of ones own thoughts or actions; consciousness.
2. The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of ones 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 ones self; the moral sense.
3. The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.
4. Tenderness of feeling; pity.
5. conformity to ones own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging
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