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conscience clause
noun
- a clause or article in an act or law that exempts persons whose conscientious or religious scruples forbid their compliance.
conscience clause
noun
- a clause in a law or contract exempting persons with moral scruples
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Word History and Origins
Origin of conscience clause1
First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences
But she interrupts him before he can add his conscience clause.
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Subject to a conscience clause, religious instruction was obligatory, and was placed under ecclesiastical inspection.
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There was at one time much debating about a so-called "Conscience Clause."
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Granted a certain modicum of worldly conformity, they would not be at all indisposed to a conscience clause.'
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Secular state education and the “conscience clause” were anathema to him.
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