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Conscience

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means an inner sense of right and wrong that guides a person's behavior
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Stage 1 of 2
conscientia
Latin · ancient
"inner knowledge, awareness"
literally knowing with oneself, from com- (with) and scire (to know)
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Stage 2 of 2
conscience
English · 1200s
"an inner sense of right and wrong guiding behavior"
settled as the English word for one's inner sense of right and wrong
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