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in conscience en · ADV

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In fairness; by all that is reasonable.
    • ‘Is she tall, or short?’ asked Mrs. Horton, still wishing for farther information. ‘Oh, tall enough of all conscience,’ returned Lady Evans […]. 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Penguin, published 2009, page 10:
    • I liked it when Mart came and we got the takeaway, but I should have left it all for him. Though in all conscience I didn't do it for the sake of the spare ribs. 2005, Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black:
    • I ought in conscience to have made ten thousand pretty detours about all this. 1809, Walter Scott, letter, 14 June

Forms

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of all conscience alternative lexicographic
in all good conscience alternative lexicographic
of conscience alternative lexicographic
in all conscience alternative lexicographic
in good conscience alternative lexicographic

Translations (4)

pl z czystym sumieniem (in fairness; by all that is right and fair) · fr en son âme et conscience (in fairness; by all that is right and fair) · fi puhtaalla omallatunnolla (in fairness; by all that is right and fair) · fi hyvällä omallatunnolla (in fairness; by all that is right and fair)