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Maj Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Conscience

What's the difference between a clear conscience and an easy conscience. Examples will be appreciated.
  

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" would be the state of your mind if some one accused you of a mis-deed, and you certainly HAD NOT do the thing you are accused of ... " is less used, in my experience, have you come across it yourself in a specific context? I'd think we'd use "easy" if you were accused of something, which you mght have done, but your view of the seriousness of it differed; a thing that you thought was morally acceptable which some one else takes a different view of...

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  • " would be the state of your mind if some one accused you of a mis-deed, and you certainly HAD NOT do the thing you are accused of ...
  • " is less used, in my experience, have you come across it yourself in a specific context?
  • I'd think we'd use "easy" if you were accused of something, which you mght have done, but your view of the seriousness of it differed; a thing that you thought was morally acceptable which some one else takes a different view of...
  • but the more I think about this, the less clear-cut it seems, I think there is a lot of overlap in the way you coudl use these phrases.
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An interesting question
I am not sure that there is a huge diff -

"a clear consc." would be the state of your mind if some one accused you of a mis-deed, and you certainly HAD NOT do the thing you are accused of ...

easy consc." is less used, in my experience, have you come across it yourself in a specific context? I'd think we'd use "easy" if you were accused of some
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