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conscience1 (s.xiiim)
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conscience1 (s.xiiim)

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conciense,  consciense,  consience;  consciencie;  cunscience,  cuntience  (conscins  Mir Just 138)  
  FEW:  conscientia 2/ii,1059a Gdf:  conscience 2,253c GdfC:  conscience 9,162a TL: conscïence 2,720 DEAF:  conscïence  DMF:  conscience  TLF:  conscience  OED:  conscience n.  MED:  conscience n.  DMLBS:  conscientia 446a

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conscience: 
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1 )  E sa demeyne concience Encontre li duna sentence  Evang1 479
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  nette e clere conscience sanz aparcevance de pecché  Ancren1 3.6
( 1423 )  par sa forfaiture […] il estoit moeuz et troublez grandement en sa conscience  Rot Parl1 iv 213
(bone) conscience
equity, fairness: 
( 1321 )  Nous avom regardé a bone conscience  YBB Ed II xxvi 352
( 1397-98 )  tiel fyn come bone foy & conscience demandent  Stats ii 105
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  encontre bone foy et conscience et la ley de Dieu  Lett & Pet 15.xv.85
( 1421 )  sicome resoun et conscience demandent  Rot Parl1 iv 148
blemure de conscience
blemure
aver en conscience
to intend: 
( 1340 )  les eschetours n’ount en consciencie de faire tieux destruccions, & cheytivement ont responduz au Roi  Stats i 285 xiii
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