The mind or heart as the seat of thought, feeling, and desire; attitude of mind, feelings; gret ~, full awareness; sure ~, strong conviction; putten upon ~, to call to mind, remind (sb.); setten ~ upon, put one's heart into (a task).

(a) The faculty of knowing what is right, esp. with reference to Christian ethics; the moral sense, one's conscience; awareness of right and wrong; consciousness of having done something good or bad; ~ of sinne, a sense of guilt; (b) clene ~, god ~, sauf ~, clear conscience, pure heart; combred ~, fals ~, guilty conscience; kind ~, natural moral sense; (c) clenen ~, cleren ~, to clear away one's sense of guilt, relieve one's conscience; defoulen ~, sully one's conscience; vexed in ~, conscience-stricken; (d) gnawing, remorse, worm of ~, remorse.

(a) A sense of fairness or justice; scrupulousness, conscientiousness; nice ~, foolish scruples; spiced ~, fastidiousness; bi ~, of ~, in fairness; after god ~, fairly; ~ of God, conscientious devotion to God; (b) haven ~, knouen ~, to have scruples; maken ~ to, have regard for (sth.); meven in ~, appeal to (one's) sense of justice; (c) ayens laue and ~, contrary to law and justice; etc.

Tenderness of conscience, solicitude; anxiety; ben in ~, to feel uneasy.