conscion

C3O1N1S1C3I1O1N1

verb

To have a (specified kind of) conscience.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verbconscion (third-person singular simple present conscions, present participle conscioning, simple past and past participle conscioned)

present singular third person conscions · participle present conscioning · participle past conscioned · past conscioned

  1. archaicrareTo have a (specified kind of) conscience.

    And the Popes of those Times were not so nice conscioned to deny Princes such Requests, but were easily wonne thereunto either by Favor or Rewards :

    1750, A collection of scarce and valuable tracts, volume 5, page 256
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    For which reason the very zealous, tender-conscioned reformers of those times thought fit to turn him out of his benefice (which was his freehold), contrary to all law and justice;

    1899, Frederic Jesup Stimson, King Noanett: a story of old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay, page 30
  2. rareTo find conscionable.

    Callie found herself the slightest bit irate. Her father had been so eager for her to wed a nobleman, but here he was conscioning Zeus' s dalliance with a tavern-wench!

    1997, Mallory Burgess, Beloved Heart, →ISBN, page 118
    1 more example

    That he conscioned when he deeded the lands known as the Camp Ground Tract to the Trustees it was for the use, benefit and behoof of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and these trustees were controlled in their management […]

    2007, Dale Wiley, There Is a Fountain: Voices and Stories, →ISBN, page 216

Origin

Some modern uses may be back-formations from conscionable.

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APA

conscion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conscion

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Chicago

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