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Verb
make conscience (third-person singular simple present makes conscience, present participle making conscience, simple past and past participle made conscience)
- (obsolete) To make it a matter of conscience; to be scrupulous about.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 4, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:I make a conscience [translating faits conscience], standing neare some great person, if mine eyes chance, at unwares, to steale some knowledge of any letters of importance that he readeth.
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:I mention this story also as the best method I can advise any person to take in such a case, especially if he be one that makes conscience of his duty, and would be directed what to do in it […].
- 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, Cockayne:
- The pursy man means by freedom the right to do as he pleases, and does wrong in order to feel his freedom, and makes a conscience of persisting in it.