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What does conscientious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well.
  2. Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person.
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He and I can agree in our respect for a consistent and conscientious pacifism.
He also agreed that the head nurse in obstetrics was a highly capable, responsible, and conscientious nurse.
A careful and conscientious farmer, he kept his farmyard, fences and land in good repair, and always had a neat and tidy garden.
In line with his Quaker beliefs he declared himself a conscientious objector so he could not be drafted into the military.
A conscientious motorist is counting the cost of his actions after driving through a red traffic light to allow an emergency ambulance to pass.
But remember, it is not necessary to have a formal religious practice or a belief in God to prove conscientious objection.

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