| 单词 | social conscience |
| 释义 | > as lemmassocial conscience social conscience n. a sense of responsibility or concern for the problems and injustices that affect society. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > social conscience social conscience1795 social consciousness1848 1795 P. S. Dupuy tr. J.-C. Gorgy Sentimental Tablets 99 The cause of those [writings], whose authors wrote from principle; upon the strongest conviction; directed thereto by a kind of social conscience [Fr. conscience sociale]. 1883 B. Potter Let. July in Lett. Sidney & Beatrice Webb (1978) I. 16 So ends the London Season! and I shall return with clear social conscience to my dowdy dress. 1925 A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves i. iii. 35 When our dividends came rolling in..we did, it is true, feel almost a twinge of social conscience. 2004 fRoots Dec. 35/1 Like his Bob-ness, Seydina is known for writing songs with a social conscience. < as lemmas |
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