conscience clause
a clause or article in an act or law that exempts persons whose conscientious or religious scruples forbid their compliance.
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How to use conscience clause in a sentence
But she interrupts him before he can add his conscience clause.
Alas! | Rhoda BroughtonSubject to a conscience clause, religious instruction was obligatory, and was placed under ecclesiastical inspection.
There was at one time much debating about a so-called "conscience clause."
Granted a certain modicum of worldly conformity, they would not be at all indisposed to a conscience clause.'
Robert Elsmere | Mrs. Humphry WardSecular state education and the “conscience clause” were anathema to him.
British Dictionary definitions for conscience clause
a clause in a law or contract exempting persons with moral scruples
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