make conscience
make conscience verb: to make it a matter of conscience; to be scrupulous about.
Verb
make conscience (third-person singular simple present makes conscience, present participle making conscience, simple past and past participle made conscience)
- To make it a matter of conscience; to be scrupulous about.
- I make a conscience [translating faits conscience], standing neare some great person, if mine eyes chance, at unwares, to steale some knowledge of any letters of importance that he readeth.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 4, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- I mention this story also as the best method I can advise any person to take in such a case, especially if he be one that makes conscience of his duty, and would be directed what to do in it[…].1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
Forms of make conscience
| third-person singular present | makes conscience |
|---|---|
| present participle | making conscience |
| past participle | made conscience |
| past | made conscience |
| alternative form | make a conscience |
Questions about make conscience
- What does make conscience mean?
- Make conscience means to make it a matter of conscience; to be scrupulous about.
- What part of speech is make conscience?
- Make conscience is a verb.
- What is the past tense of make conscience?
- The past tense of make conscience is made conscience.
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