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consciences, plural;
  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
    • - Ben was suffering a pang of conscience
  1. (conscience) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
  2. (conscience) conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging conscience"
  3. (conscience) a feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty"
  4. Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition, or judgment of the intellect that distinguishes right from wrong. Moral evaluations of this type may reference values or norms (principles and rules). ...
  5. (Conscience (The Beloved album)) Conscience is a 1993 album from British Pop band The Beloved. The album reached #2 on the UK Albums Chart on its release, and includes "Sweet Harmony", the first single taken from it, being the first single from the band which entered the UK Top Ten, peaking at ...
  6. (Conscience (Womack & Womack album)) Conscience is the fourth album by Womack & Womack, released in 1988, containing the hit single "Teardrops".
  7. (conscience) The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour; inwit; A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices; Consciousness; thinking; awareness, ...
  8. (Conscience) Acquinas called it “the mind of man making moral judgements.” It is variously understood as meaning the voice of God within us (Butler), our sense of moral right and wrong or our super-ego enforcing the rules of behaviour implanted within us when we were young (Freud). ...
  9. (Conscience) that faculty of the mind, or inborn sense of right and wrong, by which we judge of the moral character of human conduct. It is common to all men. Like all our other faculties, it has been "perverted by the Fall" (John 16:2; Acts 26:9; Rom. 2:15). ...
  10. (Conscience) 1. a. The awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong: Let your conscience be your guide. b. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement: a document that serves as the nation's conscience. c. ...
  11. (Conscience) (1) an inner voice that warns us somebody is looking. (2) the voice of men in man. (3) cowardice.
  12. (conscience) From Latin "conscient:" con (joint, with), scire (know); to be aware of. To be aware of moral laws. For Freud, the conscience is the part of the superego which tells the ego what not to do.
  13. (conscience) The inherent knowledge or sense of right and wrong. Our conscience is the innate wisdom of our soul, along with all we have learned from our past lives.
  14. (CONSCIENCE) There is no word in the Qur'an which exactly expresses the Christian conception of conscience. The word nafs , which, according to Arabic lexicons, expresses very much the same idea as the Hebrew hephesh, "life, aninial spirit, breath" (Job xii. ...
  15. (CONSCIENCE) The internalization of morality within an individual to the degree that it becomes an automatic response, akin in some ways to an emotion. (The physical location of the conscience within the brain has been found to be in the prefrontal cortex.)
  16. (CONSCIENCE) that faculty within our heart that determines right and wrong thoughts and actions, and instantly approves or convicts us; the voice of our spirit.
  17. (Conscience) (N) -the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action.
  18. (Conscience) A person's conscience...believer or non-believer...is the God-given capacity enabling that person's mental awareness to distinguish between right and wrong. But this conscience must be "programmed"; how was/is yours programmed? See how here.
  19. (Conscience) An act of judgment, not a "feeling" or gut reaction. Conscience always makes particular judgments, about actual situations facing us. ...
  20. (Conscience) Our internal 'voice' which tells us right from wrong, some people believe that this is the voice of God within us.
  21. (Conscience) The imperfectly received or recognized working of one's spiritual being, in itself a spiritual activity of the inner god, which as yet is able to send only some faint gleams of light, truth, and harmony into the heavy and obscure brain-mind in which most people live. ...
  22. (Conscience) The interior voice of a human being, within whose heart the inner law of God is inscribed. Moral conscience is a judgment of practical reason about the moral quality of a human action. It moves a person at the appropriate moment to do good and to avoid evil. ...
  23. (Conscience) To dream that your conscience censures you for deceiving some one, denotes that you will be tempted to commit wrong and should be constantly on your guard. To dream of having a quiet conscience, denotes that you will stand in high repute.
  24. (Conscience) a person's inner awareness of conforming to the will of GOD or departing from it, resulting in either a sense of approval or condemnation.
  25. (Conscience) n. An early artifact formerly serving the purpose now fulfilled by harsh penalties assigned as punishment for getting caught.