All 7 Uses of
conscience
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- He emitted a laboured breath, as if the scene were getting rather oppressive to his heart, or to his conscience, or to his gentility.†
Chpt 2conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- He had been on the point of kissing that too tempting mouth, but he checked himself, for tender conscience' sake.†
Chpt 3 *
- Despite his heterodoxy, faults, and weaknesses, Clare was a man with a conscience.†
Chpt 4
- The struggle was so fearful; her own heart was so strongly on the side of his—two ardent hearts against one poor little conscience—that she tried to fortify her resolution by every means in her power.†
Chpt 4
- And she held that what her conscience had decided for her when her mind was unbiassed ought not to be overruled now.†
Chpt 4
- The incident of the misplaced letter she had jumped at as if it prevented a confession; but she knew in her conscience that it need not; there was still time.†
Chpt 4
- You don't believe that you ought to preach my doctrine, and, therefore, do no despite to your conscience in abstaining.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior