in conscience

== English == === Alternative forms === in all conscience, in good conscience, in all good conscience (obsolete) of conscience, of all conscience === Adverb === in conscience (not comparable) In fairness; by all that is reasonable. [from 15th c.] 1809, Walter Scott, letter, 14 June: I ought in conscience to have made ten thousand pretty detours about all this. ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “in conscience”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present. “in conscience”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present. “in all good conscience in all conscience” (US) / “in all good conscience in all conscience” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary. “not in all good conscience” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman. “in conscience”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “conscience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.