liberty of conscience

collocation in English

meaningsoflibertyandconscience

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liberty
noun
uk
/ˈlɪb.ə.ti/us
/ˈlɪb.ɚ.t̬i/
formal
the freedom to live as you wish or go where ...
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conscience
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkɒn.ʃəns/us
/ˈkɑːn.ʃəns/
the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad things that you have done or things you feel ...
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(Definition oflibertyandconsciencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This in turn underpinned a strong, but vague, moral imperative towardslibertyofconscience.
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There islibertyofconsciencehere.
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Where is thelibertyofconsciencethere?
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They did so in the church as well as the state (that is to say, all demandedlibertyofconscience).
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If religious assessments were interpreted as civil levies, then they did not necessarily conflict withlibertyofconscience.
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There is something far greater at stake, and that islibertyofconscienceand of reason.
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I claimlibertyofconscience, and therefore cannot obey military orders.
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Then all this solemn talk aboutlibertyofconsciencebecomes purely a question of electioneering.
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Even more – it is denied freedom of speech andlibertyofconscience.
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I ask for perfectlibertyofconsciencefor the priest in both ways.
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They advocated freedom of trade andlibertyofconscience.
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I want to safeguard thelibertyofconscienceand to safeguard also the health of the women.
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Yet his deepest commitment was always to the radical religious agenda that he shared with many of his fellow officers, and specifically to the promotion oflibertyofconscience.
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You can not understand us, we are not allowedlibertyofconscience.
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Libertyofconsciencewas suppressed, but atheism was also a crime.
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We are fighting to preserve for ourselves thelibertyofconscience, liberty of religious worship, and liberty of speech and action.
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It is quite true; but have we reached the stage when we are to denylibertyofconscienceto the people of this country?
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I am sure that as much as anybody he is forlibertyofconscience, freedom of discussion and freedom of thought.
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One is that we believe inlibertyofconscienceand the other is that we believe that politics is the art of the possible.
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It considerslibertyofconscienceas an inherent right of each man and excludes no one because of his beliefs.
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It also recogniseslibertyofconscienceon this matter, as there is on many other matters, within the broad church that is the national church...
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At this stage, the group had an agenda of reformation: the executive checked by regular parliaments, and the moderate extension oflibertyofconscience.
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He issued an edict of toleration, to the effect that, while the exercise of magical rites would be punished, his subjects should enjoy fulllibertyofconscience.
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In 1640, thirty-nine freemen (men who had full citizenship and voting rights) signed another agreement that declared their determination... still to hold forthlibertyofconscience.
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