conscience

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consciences

1.
(countable, uncountable)The ethical or moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions.
Your conscience is your highest authority.
1949, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist, Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.
2.
(countable, uncountable)(chiefly fiction, narratology) 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.
3.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.

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⚖️Ethics

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ine-pro From Middle English conscience, from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (knowledge within oneself) (a calque of σῠνείδησῐς), from consciens, present participle of conscire (to know, to be conscious (of wrong)), from com- (together) + scire (to know).