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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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A conscientious motorist is counting the cost of his actions after driving through a red traffic light to allow an emergency ambulance to pass.
If Baptists wavered in their support of conscientious objectors, they were unequivocal about the separation of church and state.
It also results from engineers being conscientious people who are serious about keeping their commitments.
However, last-borns perceived themselves as more agreeable, conscientious and open to experience than their siblings perceived them.
In line with his Quaker beliefs he declared himself a conscientious objector so he could not be drafted into the military.
To say so would be an affront to the overwhelming majority of conscientious people of both communities.

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