Conscience

Definition

conscience /'kɒnʃǝns/ n [C, U] (ေကာင္းဆိုးက်ဳိးျပစ္ ခြဲျခားသိျမင္ တတ္ေသာ) အသိစိတ္။ အသိတရား။ စိတ္ဓာတ္။ လိပ္ျပာ။ have a clear/guilty conscience (ie feel one has done right/wrong) ❍ My conscience was troubled by the unkind things I had said to her. ❍ She cheerfully cheats and lies; she has no conscience at all. ❍ I must go. ❍ It's a matter of conscience (ie I think it would be morally wrong not to go). ❍ He has a strong social/political conscience. ❏ conscience money n [U] ကိုယ့္လိပ္ျပာကိုယ္မလံု၍ ေပး ေသာေငြ။ ❏ conscience-stricken /-strÇkǝn/ adj မွားေလစြဟု ေနာင္တ ရေနေသာ။ ❏ in (all/good) conscience [ IDM ] လိပ္ျပာသန္႔သန္႔ျဖင့္။ You cannot in all conscience regard that as fair pay. ❍ I could not in conscience refuse to help. ❏ on one's conscience [ IDM ] (ျပဳမိေလျခင္း၊ မလုပ္ခဲ့ရေလ ျခင္းဟု) စိတ္မေကာင္းျဖစ္ရျခင္း။ It's still on my conscience that I didn't warn her in time. ❍ I must write to him about his wife's death—I've had it on my conscience for weeks now.

Examples

1. Each person must vote according to his or her own conscience.
2. The decision must be a matter of individual conscience.
3. [guilty conscience] : It’s hard to imagine how people live with a guilty conscience.
4. [clear conscience] : We want to leave with a clear conscience
5. knowing we did the job right.
6. [struggle/wrestle with your conscience] : After a night of wrestling with his conscience
7. he decided to go to the police.
8. [ease someone’s conscience] : People give a few pounds to charity in order to ease their consciences.
9. Discrimination is a problem that’s been troubling America’s social conscience for years.