All 7 Uses of
conscience
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- I couldn't get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way.†
Chpt 16conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- I tried to make out to myself that I warn't to blame, because I didn't run Jim off from his rightful owner; but it warn't no use, conscience up and says, every time, "But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody."†
Chpt 16
- Conscience says to me, "What had poor Miss Watson done to you that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word?†
Chpt 16
- My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, "Let up on me—it ain't too late yet—I'll paddle ashore at the first light and tell."†
Chpt 16
- The more I studied about this the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down and ornery I got to feeling.†
Chpt 31 *
- But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.†
Chpt 33
- If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior