Collocations withconscience

These are words often used in combination withconscience.

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collective conscience
This issue is embedded in the collective conscience, and, as we shall see, contentious recollections of what 'really ' happened have now started to circulate.
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freedom of conscience
From a normative perspective, democracy requires freedom of conscience and freedom from coercion.
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guilty conscience
But as the novel progresses, her fate seems overdetermined - as much the product of an archaic institution as that of a guilty conscience.
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individual conscience
The anarchy of the sects led others to distrust both scriptural politics and the appeal to individual conscience as forces of social instability.
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qualms of conscience
We already see they have great qualms of conscience about the tax they are going to impose on these smaller holders of land.
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