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1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall ii. sig. B^v As opportunity serues, it [sc. the ceremony of burial] is religiously and conscientiously to be cared for.

1659 H. Hammond Dispatcher Dispatched i. 47 Vengeane belonged to God, which concluded him conscientiously obliged not to take it into his own hands.

1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 551 Sin does not therefore cease to be Sin, because a Man committed it Conscientiously.

?c1710 Remarks Quakers Case (single sheet) What Reason is there then, that the Quakers, who conscienciously scruple the taking any Oath, should not be Reliev'd, when they willingly submit to greater Penalties for not speaking Truth, than others are subject to, for not swearing Truth?

1791 T. Paine Common Sense (new ed.) 87 The invasion of our country..conscientiously qualifies the use of arms.

1820 Panoplist Feb. 60 After the American revolution, a majority of the confederated states, and a very great majority of the people, were sincerely and conscientiously opposed to slavery.

1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 4 (note) The public took up the hue and cry conscientiously enough.

1874 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 4) i. iii. 98 The east end..was carefully and conscientiously restored..by G. G. Scott.

1882 W. D. Howells in Longman's Mag. 1 45 The village is conscientiously clean.

1959 Listener 2 Apr. 603/1 If you are running-in a new car, and conscientiously keeping down to a maximum of thirty miles an hour, [etc.].

2008 C. A. J. Coady Morality & Polit. Violence xi. 237 Where it is in fact an unjust war, then it is good that citizens conscientiously refuse to fight in it; where it is a just war, there is still value in the fact that some citizens conscientiously object to it and that the state honours their integrity by treating their objections with respect.