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单词 soft conscienced
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soft conscienced
soft conscienced adj. depreciative Obsolete not strict or constant with regard to matters of conscience; liable to be conciliatory or lenient.Quot. 1924 is apparently an isolated later use, probably with allusion to quot. a1616.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. i. 35 Though soft conscienc'd men can be content to say it was for his Countrey. View more context for this quotation
1658 A. Cokayne Obstinate Lady iv. i, in Small Poems 361 I..will be rather A perjur'd Mahumetan..then a Soft-conscience'd ass, and let this villain have her.
1924 W. O'Brien E. Burke as Irishman i. 3 The discomfiture of his soft conscienced progenitor on ‘Stony Thursday’.
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