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1. Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
   - scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong
    
2. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct
   "a person of unflagging conscience"
    
3. A feeling of shame when you do something immoral
   "he has no conscience about his cruelty"

Derived forms: consciences

See also: conscientious

Type of: ethical motive, ethics, morality, morals, shame

Encyclopedia: Conscience Conscience, Examination of