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Definition
feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- —Her conscience, her sensitive conscience, would have felt all that the conscience of her husband ought to have felt.Chapter 47 (19% in)
- A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.Chapter 31 (27% in)
- I could not have answered it to my conscience to let it fall into any other hands.Chapter 33 (60% in)
- Her manners gave some re-assurance to Edward, and he had courage enough to sit down; but his embarrassment still exceeded that of the ladies in a proportion, which the case rendered reasonable, though his sex might make it rare; for his heart had not the indifference of Lucy's, nor could his conscience have quite the ease of Elinor's.Chapter 35 (53% in)
- Elinor was very angry, but Marianne seemed entirely insensible of the sting; for she calmly replied, "Not so, indeed; for, seriously speaking, I am very sure that conscience only kept Edward from Harley Street.Chapter 35 (82% in)
- And I really believe he HAS the most delicate conscience in the world; the most scrupulous in performing every engagement, however minute, and however it may make against his interest or pleasure.Chapter 35 (83% in)
- The expense would be nothing, the inconvenience not more; and it was altogether an attention which the delicacy of his conscience pointed out to be requisite to its complete enfranchisement from his promise to his father.Chapter 36 (79% in)
- He saw the necessity of inviting the Miss Steeles immediately, and his conscience was pacified by the resolution of inviting his sisters another year; at the same time, however, slyly suspecting that another year would make the invitation needless, by bringing Elinor to town as Colonel Brandon's wife, and Marianne as THEIR visitor.Chapter 36 (87% in)
- Relate only what in your conscience you think necessary for me to hear.Chapter 44 (55% in)
- To treat her with unkindness, to speak of her slightingly is no atonement to Marianne—nor can I suppose it a relief to your own conscience.Chapter 44 (80% in)
- —Her conscience, her sensitive conscience, would have felt all that the conscience of her husband ought to have felt.Chapter 47 (20% in)
- —Her conscience, her sensitive conscience, would have felt all that the conscience of her husband ought to have felt.Chapter 47 (20% in)
- The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.Chapter 50 (43% in)
There are no more uses of "conscience" in Sense and Sensibility.
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