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1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 93 As for destroyers of grace it is two-fold: first the blighting or blasting of a conscience-wasting sinne... Secondly, the drowth, and scorching heat of persecution.

1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience iii. 17 The committing of a conscience-wasting sin.

1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life xi. 135 Conscience pacifying, and soul quieting blood.

1811–26 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (2000) V. 604 A conscience-worrying casuistical monkish Work-holiness.

1834 J. Hewson Christ Rejected (ed. 2) xi. 209 A very few of our learned profession believe that there is one word of truth in that conscience troubling volume, called the Bible.

1864 Gospel Standard 1 Jan. 8 To have been kept from conscience-wasting sins is no small mercy.

1874 Evangelical Repository Sept. 25 ‘Thy sin is forgiven; go in peace, and sin no more,’ is the response of the conscience-pacifying oracle.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 26 June 10/2 In this way they think the conscience-salving method of evasion, passive neglect, would be rendered less easy.

1979 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Apr. 62/3 The solar heater begins paying off immediately in conscience-easing.

1996 I. Rankin in M. Edwards Perfectly Criminal 204 He was now regarded as a ‘senior statesman’, and the American president sent him on the occasional high-profile, high-publicity spot of troubleshooting and conscience-salving.

2004 S. B. Ferguson in C. W. Morgan & R. A. Peterson Hell under Fire x. 224 In particular, the preacher needs to unmask the specific conscience-easing lies we speak to ourselves through an open manifestation of the truth.