Both Uses of
conscientious
in
Mansfield Park
- I hope I should not have been influenced myself in a wrong way, and I am sure my father was too conscientious to have allowed it.†
Chpt 11 *
- It would really be gratifying to see them all again, and a little addition of society might be of infinite use to them; and as to yourself, you must feel yourself to be so wanted there, that you cannot in conscience—conscientious as you are—keep away, when you have the means of returning.†
Chpt 45
Definition:
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(conscientious) careful to do what is right--especially to perform duties in a thorough manner