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in foro conscientiae

in foro conscientiae adverb: morally, but not necessarily legally.

Adverb

in foro conscientiae (not comparable)

  1. morally, but not necessarily legally.
    • Those human laws, that annex a punishment to it, do not at all increase it’s moral guilt, or superadd any fresh obligation in foro conscientiae to abstain from it’s perpetration.176, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, book, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 42-43
    • The principle of the censorship is still uncompromisingly maintained by the Roman Catholic Church; and this, though in general binding only in foro conscientiae, has necessarily had considerable importance in states which recognize the papacy as an independent power relations with which are...1911, Press Laws, entry in Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, vol. 22, p. 300

Forms of in foro conscientiae

alternative formin foro conscientiæ

Origin of in foro conscientiae

Borrowed from Latin in forō conscientiae (“in the court of conscience”).

Questions about in foro conscientiae

What does in foro conscientiae mean?
In foro conscientiae means morally, but not necessarily legally.
What part of speech is in foro conscientiae?
In foro conscientiae is an adverb.

Words near in foro conscientiae in the dictionary

  1. in for it
  2. in for the kill
  3. in force
  4. in form
  5. in forma pauperis
  6. in foro conscientiae
  7. in foro conscientiæ
  8. in freefall
  9. in from the cold
  10. in front
  11. in front of

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