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   Con·science

   /ˈkänSHəns/

   

   noun

   • 1. an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior: "he had a guilty conscience about his desires"

   Word Origin Middle English (also in the sense ‘inner thoughts or knowledge’): via Old French from Latin conscientia, from conscient- ‘being privy to’, from the verb conscire, from con- ‘with’ + scire ‘know’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. conscienceless adjective

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