in conscience

Idioms  

1. Also, in all good conscience. In all truth or fairness, as in I can't in conscience say that the meeting went well, or In all good conscience we can't support their stand on disarmament. [Late 1500s]

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in conscience

"We wish to remain in total communion with the church but we cannot signify more clearly, or more painfully either, our incapacity in conscience to obey what we are commanded to do."

From Fox News ● Dec. 8, 2018

Barrett and Garvey ultimately conclude that “if one cannot in conscience affirm a death sentence the proper response is to recuse oneself.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2018

This is a superb reminder, a question that brings in conscience and social justice.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2017

Besides, the rule applies to pharmacies rather than pharmacists; if a pharmacist cannot, in conscience, supply the pills, a colleague may do so.

From Economist ● Jul. 7, 2016

Which absolute authority we cannot in conscience own, for these reasons, taken both from reason and scripture.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields