conscienced
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From conscience + -ed.
Adjective
[edit]conscienced (not comparable)
- 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