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conscience money (uncountable)
- (idiomatic) Money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt, and seeks to provide compensation, for some past misdeed or negligence.
1865 November 23, “From Washington”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 August 2014:The Secretary of the Treasury is almost daily in receipt of installments of conscience-money, which the perturbed moral sense of a guilty office-holder or other defrauder of the government suggests the payment of in order to obtain "a still and quiet conscience."
1918, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 1, in Oh, Money! Money!:"Whatever I've done, I've always been criticized. . . . If I donated to a church, it was called conscience money; and if I didn't donate to it, they said I was mean and miserly."
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money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt
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