conscience

  1. Noun.  The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour; inwit.
  2. 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.
  3. Noun.  (obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.

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