conscientiousness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, noun A scrupulous regard to the decisions of conscience; a sense of justice, and strict conformity to its dictates. All his conduct seemed marked with an exact and unvarying conscientiousness
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