make conscience

To make it a matter of conscience; to be scrupulous about.

Verb

To make it a matter of conscience; to be scrupulous about.
- I make a conscience [translating faits conscience], standing neare some great person, if mine eyes chance, at unwares, to steale some knowledge of any letters of importance that he readeth. - 1603, Michel de Montaigne,...
- I mention this story also as the best method I can advise any person to take in such a case, especially if he be one that makes conscience of his duty, and would be directed what to do in it[…]. - 1722, Daniel Defoe, A...
- The pursy man means by freedom the right to do as he pleases, and does wrong in order to feel his freedom, and makes a conscience of persisting in it. - 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, Cockayne