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pang of conscience en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (in-plural, often) A feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets.
   • So it fell that Mistress Anne could go to London without pangs of conscience at leaving her sister in the country and alone. 1896, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 11, in A Lady of Quality:
   • It was clear to Mr. Seely that Dick Shand's story was 'got up,'—and very well got up. He had no pang of conscience as to using it. But when it came to believing it, that was quite another thing. 1879, Anthony Trollope, chapter 50, in John Caldigate:

Forms

Relateds

misgiving · remorse · scruple · compunction · guilty conscience

Translations (15)

ro mustrare de conștiință (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · ba выждан ғазабы (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · is mórall (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · de Gewissensbiss (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · hu lelkiismeret-furdalás (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · az vicdan əzabı (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · ru угрызе́ния со́вести (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · hu bűntudat (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · pt dor na consciência (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · sv samvetskval (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · pl wyrzuty sumienia (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · it coscienza sporca (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · it coda di paglia (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · fi omantunnontuska (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets) · it rimorso (feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets)