Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, preservative or preventive treatment; prophylaxis.
- noun Conscience regarded as the internal repository of the laws of right and wrong.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.), obsolete Prophylaxis.
- noun (Metaph.) Conscience viewed as the internal repository of the laws of duty.
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- noun theology, historical An aspect of one's
conscience by which one can judgewrong fromright and decide on what makes good conduct (as distinguished from syneidesis).
Etymologies
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Examples
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In one place he uses the term synteresis for the highest power of the mind, the term meaning the power of preservation.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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I, Bk. I, ch. 1) of the term synteresis or synderesis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Also the highest power of the spirit, which is called synteresis [144] -- the understanding faculty -- is brought back to its first nobility by the Passion of Christ.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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How the highest power of the soul, which is called synteresis, is also brought to its highest nobility in the Passion of Christ
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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The School admits a practical reason or "synteresis" (Gewissen, psychological conscience), in the sense of a natural habit of moral Principles.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The synteresis proposeth the question; his word, oath, promise, is to be religiously kept, although to his enemy, and that by the law of nature.
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But laws, on the contrary, since they are only human enactments for the regulation of social life, or the yokes of princes thrown over the necks of their subjects, refuse to be brought to the standard of synteresis, the origin of equity, because they feel that they possess more of arbitrary will than rational judgment.
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Natural law consists henceforth in fundamental primordial judgments of a moral order; synteresis is its habitus or way of functioning.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas PAUL FORIERS 1968
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Natural law is there - fore not the synteresis but its object.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas PAUL FORIERS 1968
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Synderesis, or more correctly synteresis, is a term used by the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
mialuthien commented on the word synteresis
synteresis – the intuitive knowledge of right and wrong
July 22, 2008
qms commented on the word synteresis
The sybarite does as he pleases,
No shame or regret ever teases,
And each night he knows
The sweet deep repose
Of living without synteresis.
February 1, 2017