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/sɛns əv raɪt ənd rɔŋ/ Listen

Sense of right and wrong

noun

Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions. Synonyms: conscience, moral sense, scruples.

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... Ephraim was not a casuist, and his sense of right and wrong came largely through his affections. It is safe to say that he never made an analysis of the sorrow which he knew was afflicting the girl, but he had had a general and most sympathetic understanding of it ever since the time when Jethro had gone back to the capital; ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... you have laid a firm foundation whereon to exercise the higher faculties of reflection and reasoning. Still more is it of paramount importance to educate and bring out the moral faculties, to cultivate the sense of right and wrong, to enlighten and strengthen the young conscience, to teach the love of good, and the hatred of evil, and to strive to bring the whole being under the new commandment of Christ, "that ye love one another." The golden rule, "to do unto others as ye would that they should do unto ...

— The Infant System - For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, - from One to Seven years of Age • Samuel Wilderspin

Words linked to "Sense of right and wrong" : moral sense, sense of shame, ethics, superego, morality, sense of duty, scruples, wee small voice, voice of conscience, morals, small voice, ethical motive