VOICE OF CONSCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voice of conscience mean? 

• VOICE OF CONSCIENCE (noun)
  The noun VOICE OF CONSCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. an inner voice that judges your behavior

  Familiarity information: VOICE OF CONSCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOICE OF CONSCIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inner voice that judges your behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting goals

Synonyms:

small voice; voice of conscience; wee small voice

Hypernyms ("voice of conscience" is a kind of...):

conscience; moral sense; scruples; sense of right and wrong (motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions)

 Context examples 

If you had listened to the voice of conscience and heeded the stings of remorse before you had urged your diabolical vengeance to this extremity, Frankenstein would yet have lived.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)