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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 careful and conscientious farmer, he kept his farmyard, fences and land in good repair, and always had a neat and tidy garden.
He and I can agree in our respect for a consistent and conscientious pacifism.
A conscientious motorist is counting the cost of his actions after driving through a red traffic light to allow an emergency ambulance to pass.
He also agreed that the head nurse in obstetrics was a highly capable, responsible, and conscientious nurse.
To say so would be an affront to the overwhelming majority of conscientious people of both communities.
It also results from engineers being conscientious people who are serious about keeping their commitments.

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