conscienced

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

conscience +‎ -ed

Adjective[edit]

conscienced (not comparable)

  1. Having a conscience (of a particular kind).
    • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
      what he hath done famously he did it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be content to say it was for his country