Conscience vs Conk - What's the difference?
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The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour.
* 1949 , , as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist ,
* 1951 , (Isaac Asimov), publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 14, page 175, ¶ 7
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 (chiefly fiction) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.
(obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
* 1603 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , act 3, scene 1,
The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a Bracket fungus'' (A.K.A. ''Shelf fungus''), ''i.e. , a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
(slang) A nose, especially a large one.
(slang) To hit, especially on the head.
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To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
As nouns the difference between conscience and conk
is that conscience is the moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour while conk is the shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus'' (aka ''shelf fungus''), ''ie , a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.As a verb conk is
(slang) to hit, especially on the head.conscience
English
(wikipedia conscience)Noun
(en noun)- Never do anything against conscience , even if the state demands it.
- [“]Twer is not a friend of mine testifying against me reluctantly and for conscience ’ sake, as the prosecution would have you believe. He is a spy, performing his paid job.[”]
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience ,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
- Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
- And thus the native hue of resolution
- Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.