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Definition: Conscience |
ConscienceNoun1. Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions. 2. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct: "a person of unflagging conscience". 3. A feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conscience" was first used: 12th century. (references) |
Etymology: Conscience \Con"science\, noun. [French expression conscience, from the Latin expression conscientia, from consciens, present participle of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- scire to know. See Science.]. (Websters 1913) |
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19th Century Satire | The fear of being found out. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | 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). It is spoken of as "defiled" (Titus 1:15), and "seared" (1 Tim. 4:2). A "conscience void of offence" is to be sought and cultivated (Acts 24:16; Rom. 9:1; 2 Cor. 1:12; 1 Tim. 1:5, 19; 1 Pet. 3:21). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | 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. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Conscience Have you the conscience to [demand such a price]. Can your conscience allow you to [demand such a price]. Conscience is the secret monitor within man which accuses or excuses him, as he does what he thinks to be wrong or right. In all conscience. As, "And enough too, in all conscience." Meaning that the demand made is as much as conscience would tolerate without accusing the person of actual dishonesty; to the verge of that fine line which separates honesty from dishonesty. My conscience! An oath. I swear by my conscience. Court of Conscience. Established for the recovery of small debts in London and other trading places. These courts have been superseded by county courts. "Why should not Conscience have vacation, As well as other courts o' the nation?" Butler: Hudibras, ii. 2. Nonconformist Conscience. (See Nonconformist). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: ConscienceSynonyms: moral sense (n), scruples (n), sense of right and wrong (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affirmation | As God is my witness, I must say, indeed, i' faith, let me tell you, why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, I'd have you to know; upon my word, upon my honor; by my troth, egad, I assure you; by jingo, by Jove, by George; troth, seriously, sadly; in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in earnest; of a truth, truly, perdy, in all conscience, upon oath; be assured; (belief); yes; (assent); I'll warrant, I'll warrant you, I'll engage, I'll answer for it, I'll be bound, I'll venture to say, I'll take my oath; in fact, forsooth, joking apart; so help me God; not to mince the matter. |
Disclosure | Acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind; unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's (or Queen's) evidence; acknowledge the corn. |
Duty | Morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness; (probity); conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience, superego; the hell within. dueness; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum, gr/to prepon/gr the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do. |
Adverb: with a safe conscience, as in duty, bound, on one's own responsibility, at one's own risk, suo periculo; in foro conscientiae; quamdiu se bene gesserit. | |
Greatness | Adverb: truly; (truth); decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience; for the most part, in the main. |
Impenitence | Hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy. |
Innocence | Clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti. |
Adverb: innocently; Adjective: with clean hands; with a clear conscience, with a safe conscience. | |
Knowledge | Noun: knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation; (judgment); intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics. |
Penitence | Self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation; stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience, twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience; compunctious visitings of nature. |
Awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae, stool of repentance, cuttystool. | |
Probity | Trustworthiness; Adjective: truth, candor, singleness of heart; veracity; tender conscience; (sense of duty). |
Redundancy | Noun: redundancy, redundance; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation; nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion; (plenty); repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share; more than enough; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener; turgescence; (expansion); overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow; inundation; (water); avalanche. |
Unwillingness | Scrupulousness, scrupulosity; qualms of conscience, twinge of conscience; delicacy, demur, scruple, qualm, shrinking, recoil; hesitation; (irresolution); fastidiousness. |
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Screenplays | Remember: Always let your conscience be your guide. (Pinocchio; writing credit: Aurelius Battaglia; Carlo Collodi) I admire its purity, its sense of survival; unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. (Alien; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon.) No conscience, no remorseit's an easy way to live. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Nothing but undeveloped, unevolved, barely conscience pond scum, totally convinced of their own superiority as they scurry about in short pointless lives. (Men in Black; writing credit: Ed Solomon) Enter Errol Flynn here, whose conscience will not allow him to either swash or buckle her, but since hubby is now worm food, I'm guessing all bets are off, mmmmhmmmm? (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken) | |
Lyrics | Though my pangs of conscience, (Turn Back Time; performing artist: Aqua) Let your conscience fail ya, just do the stroke (THE STROKE; performing artist: Billy Squier) Has our conscience shown? (The World I Know; performing artist: Collective Soul) I've been wrestling with my conscience (Between You And Me; performing artist: DC Talk) And your conscience is calling you out (Miracle; performing artist: Jon Bon Jovi) | |
Clever | A good conscience is a soft pillow. (references; author: unknown) A guilty conscience needs no accuser. (references; author: unknown) A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Man with a Conscience (1969) Hendrik Conscience (1963) A Matter of Conscience (1962) Conscience Bay (1960) Beginnings of Conscience (1957) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Yellow Kid Gee dat must be my conscience coming back / / R.F. Outcault. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | A good conscience is a continual Christmas. |
George Bancroft | Democracy has given to conscience absolute liberty. |
John Dryden | And leaves the private conscience for the guide. |
Menander | Conscience is a God to all mortals. |
Origen | Conscience is the chamber of justice. |
Robert Green Ingersoll | Courage without conscience is a wild beast. |
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort | Conviction is the conscience of the mind. |
William Shakespeare | Conscience does make cowards of us all. |
| Love is too young to know what conscience is. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | That question then cannot mean, who shall judge, whether another hath put himself in a state of war with me, and whether I may, as Jephtha did, appeal to heaven in it? of that I myself can only be judge in my own conscience, as I will answer it, at the great day, to the supreme judge of all men. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | By the constitution of the United States, the President is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The ideas of religious liberty and freedom of conscience merely gave expression to the sway of free competition within the domain of knowledge. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Other peoples, especially those of Central Africa, are at such a stage that the Mandatory must be responsible for the administration of the territory under conditions which will guarantee freedom of conscience and religion, subject only to the maintenance of public order and morals, the prohibition of abuses such as the slave trade, the arms traffic, and the liquor traffic, and the prevention of the establishment of fortifications or military and naval bases and of military training of the natives for other than police purposes and the defence of territory, and will also secure equal opportunities for the trade and commerce of other Members of the League. (reference) |
United Nations | 1948 | All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | You divert me against my conscience. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It may be less soothing than a sinless conscience. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His conscience. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His conscience sighed in answer. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! |
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Business | Low-income patients are the most price conscience. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Kyrgyz Republic | The task of the State Commission on Religious Affairs (SCRA) is to promote religious tolerance, protect freedom of conscience, and oversee laws on religion. (references) |
Eritrea | The Government does not excuse individuals who object to national service for religious reasons or reasons of conscience, nor does the Government allow alternative service. (references) | |
Macau | The Basic Law--the mini-constitution--provides for freedom of conscience, freedom of religious belief, and freedom to preach and to conduct and participate in religious activities. (references) | |
Economic History | The Holy See | The Apostolic Penitentiary deals with matters of conscience; the Roman Rota is responsible for appeals, including annulments of marriage; and the Apostolic Signatura is the final court of appeal. (references) |
Bolivia | Major political parties: Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN), Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (MNR), Conscience of the Fatherland (CONDEPA), Free Bolivia Movement (MBL), Civic Solidarity Union (UCS). (references) | |
Spain | In April 1997, King Juan Carlos was awarded the World Statesmen Award by the Appeal of conscience Foundation in New York, and in March 2000, he was given the Medal of Democracy by the Center for Democracy in Washington, DC. On January 11, 2001, the United States and Spain signed a Joint Declaration that lays out a roadmap for expanded cooperation in six areas: political consultation; defense; economics and finance; science and technology; culture and combating new threats and security. (references) | |
Human Rights | Morocco | Adib remains an Amnesty International "Prisoner of Conscience," and in 2000 was awarded a Transparency International Integrity Award. (references) |
Uzbekistan | The Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations and other legislation prohibits the private teaching of religion and forbids the wearing of religious clothes. (references) | |
Tunisia | Nearly all those prisoners that have been identified by international human rights groups as political prisoners or prisoners of conscience have been arrested or detained under articles of the Penal or Press Codes prohibiting membership in illegal organizations or spreading false information aimed at undermining the public order. (references) | |
Political Economy | Zambia | Following its electoral losses, UNIP dropped its socialist orientation for a "social market" approach, which they define as "capitalism with a social conscience." There are several other small parties, many of which broke away from the MMD. All favor market-oriented economies. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort. |
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Gerald Ford | My conscience tells me it is my duty, not merely to proclaim domestic tranquility, but to use every means that I have to ensure it. |
Harry Belafonte | I would like him to live up to a higher moral standard. You know, Jeffords doesn't have to be the only one who sits in disagreement with the policies of this country and this government and acts upon it out of conscience. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | To myself, the assurance of my own conscience is that I have at least believed myself to be guided by them. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up the affairs of our to that declaration according to its obvious import and to the understanding of every candid mind. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The freedom of the press and rights of conscience, those choicest privileges of the people, are unguarded in the British constitution. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Here stands its Government, aware of its might but obedient to its conscience. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | We are summoned to act in wisdom and in conscience, to work with industry, to teach with persuasion, to preach with conviction, to weigh our every deed with care and with compassion. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | For that other nation within a Nation-the poor-whose distress has now captured the conscience of America, I will ask the Congress not only to continue, but to speed up the war on poverty. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Let them know that together, we affirmed America, and the world, as a community of conscience. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | In good conscience, we cannot let another year pass without extending to all our seniors this lifeline of affordable prescription drugs. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscience. |
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| "Conscience" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.85% of the time. "Conscience" is used about 1,354 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.85% | 1,352 | 5,884 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.15% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,354 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "conscience": appease one's conscience ♦ awakened conscience ♦ business with a social conscience ♦ clear conscience ♦ conscience clause ♦ conscience money ♦ conscience smitten ♦ conscience venality ♦ Court of Conscience ♦ for conscience sake ♦ guilty conscience ♦ have a clear conscience ♦ have a guilty conscience ♦ have the conscience to ♦ in all conscience ♦ In conscience ♦ Keeper of the King's conscience ♦ liberty of conscience ♦ matter of conscience ♦ mind conscience ♦ on my conscience ♦ pang of conscience ♦ pangs of conscience ♦ point of conscience ♦ pressure of conscience ♦ pricks of conscience ♦ qualms of conscience ♦ quiet conscience ♦ salve one's conscience ♦ seared conscience ♦ sting of conscience ♦ tender conscience ♦ To make a matter of conscience ♦ To make conscience of ♦ twinge of conscience ♦ voice of conscience ♦ with a clear conscience ♦ with a safe conscience ♦ without a twinge of conscience ♦ worm of conscience. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "conscience": conscience-mad, conscience-prodding, conscience-proof, conscience-racked, conscience-seeking, conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken. | |
Ending with "conscience": prisoner-of-conscience, prisoners-of-conscience. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "conscience"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | gewete. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vetëdijë (consciousness, feeling), ndërgjegje (consciousness, thoroughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وفقا للضمير, حي الضمير, طوية (innermost, interior, inward), ضمير وجدان (heart, innermost, mind), ضمير (pronoun, soul). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съвест. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 良心 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | svìdomí. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | samvittighed. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | geweten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | konscienco. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | samvitska. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وجدان (Breast), ضمیر (Ego), ذمه , دل (Midst, Spunk), باطن (Inside). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | omatunto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | conscience (conscientiousness, consciousness, self consciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gewissen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνείδηση (consciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מצפון (scruple), מצפו י, לב (centre, heart, middle, mind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lelkiismeret (breast), lélek (breast, censorship, critter, ghost, metal, mind, psyche, soul, spirit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | suara hati. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coscienza (awareness, consciousness, sensibleness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 良心 , 善心 (moral sense, virtue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぜ"し" (advance, ancestor, antecedents, drive, full-length, gradual progress, moral sense, one's whole heart, predecessor organization, preliminary trials, previous existence, previous position, progress, steady advance, the whole body, virtue), りょうし" (both parents, parents). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 양심 (Conscientious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cooinsheanse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | samvittighet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onsciencecay consciência (awareness, sense, spirit, worm). (various references) cuget (mind, sense, spirit, thinking, thought), conştiinţã (consciousness, mind, scruple), suflet (backbone, bosom, breast, breath, feeling, ghost, head, heart, inner man, Jack, life, life blood, man, mind, mortal, party, peppiness, soul, spirit), inimã (bosom, bowel, breast, center, centre, character, core, heart, hearts, life, mind, soul, thick, ticker). (various references) совесть. (various references) coinnseas, cogais. (various references) svest (consciousness, mind), savest. (various references) conciencia (awareness, working morale). (various references) samvete. (various references) หลุ"พ้นจากความผิ" (เกี่ยวกับบางคนหรือบางสิ่ง) (have a clean conscience (about), have a clear conscience (about)). (various references) vicdan (heart, inner man, remorse, scruple), inanç (affiance, belief, confidence, conviction, credence, credo, creed, cult, dogma, faith, faithfulness, opinion, opinions, persuasion, positiveness, reliance, religion, tenet). (various references) ynsap (justice, truth), wyjdan, namys (self-worth). (various references) сумління, свідомість (consciousness, senses), совість (breast). (various references) cây ngay chẳng sợ chết đứng điều khoản trong một đạo luật tôn trọng lương tâm những người liên can tiền nộp vì lương tâm cắn rứt, tiền trả lại vì lương tâm cắn rứt vì lương tâm tự do tín ngưỡng giũ sạch điều gì khỏi lương tâm, th nh thật (free-hearted, heart-to-heart, honestly, open-hearted, sincere, sincerely, straightforward, undisguised, undissembling), qualm, nói hết những ý nghĩ của mình không giấu giếm gì cả, lương tâm lương tâm trong sạch thì chẳng sợ ai nói ra nói v o. (various references) cydwybod. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conscientia, conscientiae, conscientiam, conscientiis. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | anghuyat, daenyå. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | ingehygd. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 13, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Dio anagkh upotassesqai ou monon dia thn orghn alla kai dia thn suneidhsin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ideo necessitate subditi estote non solum propter iram sed et propter conscientiam |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Forþy is hit niedðearflic þæt ge eow æt onwealde underhnigað, nat ane for mihtelic witan ac eacswa for ingeðance. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And therfor bi nede be ye suget, not oneli for wraththe, but also for conscience. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Wherfore ye must nedes obeye not for feare of vengeaunce only: but also because of conscience. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | So put yourselves under the authority, not for fear of wrath, but because you have the knowledge of what is right. |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 13, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Busa kinahanglan magpasakop ka nga masinugtanon dili lamang aron sa paglikay sa kapungot sa Dios, kondili usab tungod sa matarung nga kaisipan. |
| Croatian | Treba se stoga podlagati, ne samo zbog gnjeva nego i zbog savjesti. |
| Danish | Derfor er det nødvendigt at underordne sig, ikke alene for Straffens Skyld, men også for Samvittighedens. |
| Dutch | Daarom is het nodig onderworpen te zijn, niet alleen om der straffe, maar ook om des gewetens wil. |
| Finnish | Siksi tulee olla alamainen, ei ainoastaan rangaistuksen tähden, vaan myös omantunnon tähden. |
| French | Il est donc nécessaire d`être soumis, non seulement par crainte de la punition, mais encore par motif de conscience. |
| German | Darum ist's not, untertan zu sein, nicht allein um der Strafe willen, sondern auch um des Gewissens willen. |
| Hungarian | Annakokáért szükség engedelmeskedni, nem csak a haragért, hanem a lelkiismeretért is. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Itu sebabnya Saudara harus taat kepada pemerintah--bukan hanya karena Saudara tidak mau dihukum, tetapi juga karena suara hati nuranimu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Oleh sebab itu wajiblah menaklukkan diri, bukan sahaja oleh sebab kemurkaan itu, melainkan oleh sebab perasaan hati juga. |
| Maori | Koia i takoto ai te tikanga kia ngohengohe koutou, ehara i te mea he whakaaro kau ki te riri, engari ki ta te hinengaro ano hoki. |
| Norwegian | Derfor er det nødvendig å være lydig mot den, ikke bare for straffens skyld, men også for samvittighetens. |
| Portuguese | Pelo que é necessário que lhe estejais sujeitos, não somente por causa da ira, mas também por causa da consciência. |
| Rumanian | Deaceea trebuie sq fiyi supuwi nu numai de frica pedepsei, ci wi din kndemnul cugetului. |
| Shuar | Nu asamtai akupin tuke umirkatniuiti. Aya Asutiuáwain tusar umirkashtiniaitji. Antsu shiir Enentáijiai wekasatin umirkatniuiti. |
| Swahili | Kwa hiyo ni lazima kuwatii wenye mamlaka, si tu kwa sababu ya kuogopa ghadhabu ya Mungu, bali pia kwa sababu dhamiri inadai hivyo. |
| Swedish | Därför måste man vara den underdånig, icke allenast för vredesdomens skull, utan ock för samvetets skull. |
| Uma | Toe pai' kana mengkoru-ta hi hawa' topoparenta. Mengkoru-ta bona neo' -ta rahuku'. Aga meliu ngkai toe, mengkoru-ta apa' ta'inca hi rala nono-ta, toe-mi to masipato' tababehi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conscience": conscienceless, consciences. (additional references) | |
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"Conscience" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: concience, Conciencia, concsience, consceince, consciece, consciensce, consciense, consclence, consecuence, consence, consience, consince, conusance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conscience" (pronounced kÄ"nshuns) |
| 4 | -sh u n s | admirations, impatience, patience, persecutions, reinspections. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, penance, performance, permanence, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-c-e-e-i-n-n-o-s" | |
-2 letters: ensconce. | |
-3 letters: concise, conines, incense, science, senecio. | |
-4 letters: conics, conies, conine, conins, cosine, eosine, icones, nieces, nonces, oscine, scenic, sconce. | |
-5 letters: cense, cines, cions, cisco, cocci, coins, cones, conic, conin, conns, cosec, cosie, eosin, icons, nenes, neons, niece, nines, noise, nonce, nones, onces, scene, scion, scone, secco, seine, since, sonic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-c-e-e-i-n-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: consciences. | |
+2 letters: coincidences. | |
+3 letters: concupiscence, concurrencies. | |
+4 letters: concupiscences, conscienceless. | |
+5 letters: concentricities, noncoincidences. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
