make conscience
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Verb
- (obsolete) To make it a matter of conscience; to be scrupulous about. [16th-19th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 4, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- I make a conscience [transl. 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.
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