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Definition of Consciences
1. conscience [n] - See also: conscience
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consciences
Literary usage of Consciences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications (1848)
"Indeed, both these consciences are persecuted; pcn^oto but lamentably blind and
erroneous will those consciences ..."
2. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by William Sewel (1844)
"... and that for no other cause, but for their religious worship and exercise of
their tender consciences towards Almighty God who made them, ..."
3. A Plea for the West by Lyman Beecher (1835)
"It is the spiritual power of the pope over the civil destiny of nations, through
the medium of his priesthood and the consciences of men, which has in all ..."
4. The pilgrim's progress by John Bunyan, James Solas Dodd (1795)
"The former may with great propriety be done at all times ; and on some occasions
the testimony against sin cannot be too closely applied to the consciences ..."
5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1872)
"The author of the Essay on the Two consciences has, in this briefest possible of
essays, been entirely successful in showing that the term conscience is ..."
6. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester (1816)
"MY BRETHREN, IN view of the crimes and horror; of the Russian campaign, suffer
an appeal to your consciences and feelings, as to professed disciples of Him ..."
7. Mixed Essays by Matthew Arnold (1880)
"It is a good direction given by ourselves to our hearts and consciences;—une
bonne direction donn'ee par nous-memes d nos ..."
8. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"The thing answered the witness of God in their consciences, so they readily agreed
to have monthly meetings thenceforward amongst themselves, that both men ..."
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