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   conscience

   /ˈkɒnʃns/

   noun

   • 1. a person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behaviour: "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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