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conscience (s) (noun), consciences (pl)
1. Inward knowledge or the inmost thought of the mind: While trying to decide what she should do in certain situations, Jane always asked her own inward conscience and it always lead her to the correct solution.
2. The internal acknowledgement or recognition of the moral quality of one's motives and actions; the sense of right and wrong as regards things for which one is responsible: Jack suddenly had a pang of conscience regarding his unkind remark to his mother and so he told her he was sorry right away.
3. Etymology: from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia, "knowledge within oneself, a moral sense"; from con-, "with" + scire, "to know".
Knowing the difference between right and wrong with one's conduct.
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