in good conscience

English

Prepositional phrase

in good conscience

1. Alternative form of in conscience.
   • 1988, John White, “Conscience and Convenience in Eastern Kentucky”, in Susan Emley Keefe, editor, Appalachia's Children: The Challenge of Mental Health, page 209:

     In good conscience, innovative assaults on the inmate, such as lobotomy and electroshock therapy, could be added to other "treatments," such as coercive custodial care, deadening routine, water cures, and strait-jackets.

   • 1997, Ian Shapiro, Will Kymlicka, Ethnicity and Group Rights, page 90:

     Just as dissenters should be free to dissociate themselves from beliefs and practices (and so, communities) they cannot in good conscience embrace, so should communities be able to dissociate themselves from those who do not wish to conform to their ways, and whom they cannot, in good conscience, tolerate.

   • 2016, Heinrich Meier, On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life, page 141:

     For if “the good work” keeps him dependent and weak, it is no longer good for Rousseau, and if it is not good for him, he cannot do it in good conscience.

References

• “in good conscience”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “conscience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.