conscionable
[kon-shuh-nuh-buh l]
- being in conformity with one's conscience; just.
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Origin of conscionable
1540–50; conscion- (back formation from conscions, variant of conscience, the final -s taken for plural sign) + -able
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Be conscionable and faithful in performing all the labour and duty of a servant.
A Christian Directory (Part 2 of 4)Richard Baxter
Conscionable practising what you know, is an excellent help to understanding, John xii.
A Christian Directory (Part 2 of 4)Richard Baxter
Come, come, thou must be conscionable; great and secret service may deserve both this and a better thing.
KenilworthSir Walter Scott
And hereby it hath dolefully hindered the gospel, while the persecutors have silenced many worthy, conscionable preachers of it.
A Christian DirectoryBaxter Richard
conscionable
- obsolete acceptable to one's conscience
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Word Origin
C16: from conscions, obsolete form of conscience
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Word Origin and History for conscionable
adj.
1540s, from conscioned "having a conscience" (from conscience) + -able; obsolete from early 18c. but fossilized in its negative, unconscionable.
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