English Dictionary

conscience

/ˈkɒn.ʃəns/

noun

The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions.

He followed his conscience and did the right thing.

意味（1）

The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions.

Your conscience is your highest authority.

意味（2）

(chiefly fiction, narratology) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.

意味（3）

(obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.