in conscience
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In fairness; by all that is reasonable.
Example Sentences
- "‘Is she tall, or short?’ asked Mrs. Horton, still wishing for farther information. ‘Oh, tall enough of all conscience,’ returned Lady Evans […]."
- "I ought in conscience to have made ten thousand pretty detours about all this."
- "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."
Inflected Forms
in all conscience (alternative)
in good conscience (alternative)
in all good conscience (alternative)
of conscience (alternative)
of all conscience (alternative)