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Translation

conscience

Word origin

From Latin conscientia ('shared knowledge, moral sense'), from con plus scire ('to know'). Esperanto keeps the moral sense here and awareness in the separate verb konscii, a distinction French conscience blurs.

Origin
Latin
Root
conscientia
English cognates
conscience, conscientious

Examples

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My conscience is clear.

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He has a bad conscience because of what he did.

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Act according to your conscience.

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This word is part of lesson 27.