All 4 Uses of
conscience
in
Babbitt
- His conscience protested, "Why, you're smoking with them!" but he bullied it, "Oh, shut up!†
Chpt 4conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- He dodged his conscience by being jerky and noisy, and by shouting at the clerk, "Guess this will prett' near pay for itself in matches, eh?"†
Chpt 5
- Then he goes happily to bed, his conscience clear, having contributed his mite to the prosperity of the city and to his own bank-account.†
Chpt 14
- Presently he could be drunk at dawn, yet not feel particularly wretched in his conscience—or in his stomach—when he awoke at eight.†
Chpt 29 *
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior