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English
Adverb
in conscience (not comparable)
- In fairness; by all that is reasonable.
1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Penguin, published 2009, page 10:‘Is she tall, or short?’ asked Mrs. Horton, still wishing for farther information.
‘Oh, tall enough of all conscience,’ returned Lady Evans […] .
- 1809, Walter Scott, letter, 14 June:
- I ought in conscience to have made ten thousand pretty detours about all this.
2005, Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black:I liked it when Mart came and we got the takeaway, but I should have left it all for him. Though in all conscience I didn't do it for the sake of the spare ribs.
Translations
in fairness; by all that is right and fair
Further reading
- “in conscience”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “in conscience”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “in all good conscience in all conscience” (US) / “in all good conscience in all conscience” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “not in all good conscience” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “in conscience”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “conscience”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.