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in all conscience en · ADP

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of in conscience.
   alt of in conscience
   • But could you, in all conscience, deprive these good people, who are, after all, trying to do their best, of meaningful employment, of earning their livelihoods? 2014, Belva Boroditsky Thomas, The Longest Adventure, page 201:
   • There was a clear sectarian bias in the proposition that Christian groups or churches were being funded from abroad and no professional news organization or editor could in all conscience let such writings pass for news. 2015, Wendy Doniger, Martha C. Nussbaum, Pluralism and Democracy in India:
   • He needed every penny of profit the Sofala could make. Little enough it was, in all conscience! 1902, Joseph Conrad, The End of the Tether:
   • God has nowhere been left without witness, and, in ways beyond our knowing, women and men who have never heard the Christian gospel, or having heard it, have, in all conscience, declined to accept it have known God's “uncovenanted mercies” and, by reason of what Anglican theologians often refer to as the ministry of the “unincarnate Logos,” have come to be of the truth that Jesus is. 2015, Schubert M. Ogden, To Preach the Truth: Selected Sermons and Homilies, page 6:
   • I cannot, in all conscience, have somebody doing so much work for us and not getting paid.
   • It would seem as if the touch of a democratic and anarchical independence had paralysed improvement, which was, in all conscience, slow enough, even in the viceregal times. 2014, Clements R. Markham, Cuzco and Lima, page 285:
   • […] half a dozen fools are, in all conscience, as many as you should require; […] c. 1703-20, “A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, George Faulkner, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, volume 5, Jonathan Swift: