All 5 Uses of
conscience
in
Pride and Prejudice
- You must therefore allow me to follow the dictates of my conscience on this occasion, which leads me to perform what I look on as a point of duty.†
p. 96.0conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- After discharging his conscience on that head, he proceeded to inform them, with many rapturous expressions, of his happiness in having obtained the affection of their amiable neighbor, Miss Lucas, and then explained that it was merely with the view of enjoying her society that he had been so ready to close with their kind wish of seeing him again at Longbourn, whither he hoped to be able to return on Monday fortnight; for Lady Catherine, he added, so heartily approved his marriage, that she wished it to take place as soon as possible, which he trusted would be an unanswerable argument with his amiable Charlotte to name an early day for making him the happiest of men.†
p. 126.2
- How anyone could have the conscience to entail away an estate from one's own daughters, I cannot understand; and all for the sake of Mr. Collins too!†
p. 128.8
- Your own heart, your own conscience, must tell you why I come.†
p. 334.4
- My conscience told me that I deserved no extraordinary politeness, and I confess that I did not expect to receive more than my due.†
p. 349.8 *
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior