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شبکه مترجمین ایران
شبکه مترجمین ایران
شبکه مترجمین ایران
شبکه مترجمین ایران
شبکه مترجمین ایران
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معارف اسلامی و الهیات::
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واژگان شبکه مترجمین ایران
english
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noun morals: His conscience allowed him peace.
Simple Definitions
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noun ADJ. clear, easy, good I have a clear conscience. | bad, guilty, terrible, troubled, uneasy | civic, moral, political, social a government with no social conscience VERB + CONSCIENCE have He had no conscience about taking his brother's money. | appease, ease, salve, soothe After the feast she spent a week dieting to salve her conscience. | prick, trouble | appeal to, arouse, rouse, stir | wrestle with He wrestled with his conscience all night long. CONSCIENCE + VERB trouble sb Her conscience was troubling her a little. | dictate sth My conscience dictates that I resign. PREP. on your ~ I'm sure she has something on her conscience. It was on his conscience that he hadn't called her. PHRASES a crisis of conscience, freedom of conscience, in (all/good) conscience (= honestly) We cannot in all conscience refuse to help. | a matter of conscience This question is a matter of individual conscience. | a pang/prick/twinge of conscience I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell the truth. | the voice of conscience She refused to listen to the voice of conscience.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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see HAVE A CLEAR CONSCIENCE; IN CONSCIENCE.
American Heritage Idioms
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conscience adjectives a clear conscience (= the knowledge that you have done nothing wrong ) • I was able to answer his questions with a clear conscience. a guilty/troubled conscience (= the knowledge that you have done something wrong ) • His guilty conscience kept him awake at night. a social conscience (= a moral sense of how society should be or how you can help it ) • The writer’s strong social conscience is obvious in all his novels. a moral conscience (= an idea of what is right and wrong ) • At what age do children develop a moral conscience? the public conscience (= people’s idea of what is right or wrong ) • This scandal shocked the public conscience. the individual conscience • Decisions like this are a matter for the individual conscience. the human conscience • The human conscience is a product of civilization. verbs have a clear/guilty etc conscience • Does he have a guilty conscience about his role in the crime? wrestle/struggle with your conscience (= struggle to decide whether it is right or wrong do something ) • She wrestled with her conscience for weeks before deciding not to leave him. prick sb’s conscience (= make somebody feel guilty ) • Some of the things he’d done still pricked his conscience. phrases be a matter of conscience (= something that you must make a moral judgment about ) • Whether you vote or not is a matter of conscience. a crisis of conscience (= a situation in which it is very difficult to decide what is the right thing to do ) • He had a crisis of conscience about whether to take on the legal case. the voice of conscience (= something in your mind that tells you what is right and wrong ) • Other leaders urged him to listen to the voice of conscience and hold free elections. a prisoner of conscience (= someone who is in prison because they have followed their beliefs about what is right or morally good to do ) • Vaclav Havel was a prisoner of conscience who later became president of Czechoslovakia.
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