tender conscience

noun

Roget 939: probity, integrity, rectitude; uprightness etc. adj.; honesty, faith; honor; bonne foi [Fr.], good faith, bona fides [Lat.]; purity, clean hands.    fairness etc. adj.; fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle, even-handedness; grace.    constancy; faithfulness etc. adj.; fidelity, loyalty; incorruption, incorruptibility.    trustworthiness etc. adj.; truth, candor, singleness of heart; veracity etc. 543; tender conscience etc. (sense of duty) 926.    punctilio, delicacy, nicety; scrupulosity, scrupulousness etc. adj.; scruple; point, point of honor; punctuality.    dignity &c., (repute) 873; respectability, respectableness etc. adj.; gentilhomme [Fr.], gentleman; man of honor, man of his word; fidus Achates [Lat.], preux chevalier [Fr.], galantuomo [It]; truepenny^†, trump, brick; true Briton; white man [U.S.].    court of honor, a fair field and no favor; argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 926: duty, what ought to be done, moral obligation, accountableness^†, liability, onus, responsibility; bounden duty, imperative duty; call, call of duty; accountability.    allegiance, fealty, tie engagement etc. (promise) 768; part; function, calling etc. (business) 625.    morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness etc. (probity) 939; conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience, superego; the hell within [Paradise Lost]. dueness etc. 924; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum, to prepon; the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do.    [Science of morals] ethics, ethology.   ; deontology^†, aretology^†; moral philosophy, ethical philosophy; casuistry, polity.    observance, fulfillment, discharge, performance, acquittal, satisfaction, redemption; good behavior.    ... show more

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