Conscientiousness

Definitions

The state or characteristic of being conscientious.

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Examples

“It is a terrible thing a Man should be put⟳ to Death for a Crime he is not Guilty of; yet so oddly Circumstances may meet⟳ in the infinite variety of Accidents, that it is possible it should come⟳ to pass⟳, all the Wisdom that Judges, and Conscientiousness that Juries may be possess'd of, notwithstanding.”

“We come⟳ now to the greatest and noblest of the Moral Powers of Man; to that power which makes him quite a different order⟳ of being from any other that we know⟳ of, and which is the glory and crown of his existence:—his Conscientiousness.”

“It seems evident that those who have⟳ expressed the view⟳ that the following of personal inclination is sometimes morally better than conscientiousness are confusing this issue⟳ with another to which we must next give⟳ attention.”

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