conscience
- Noun. The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour; inwit.
- Noun. (context, chiefly fiction) 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.
- Noun. (obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
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