atrophy of conscience
1France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
2Civil Disobedience (Thoreau) — Henry David Thoreau …
3Essence — In philosophy, essence is the attribute or set of attributes that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and without which it loses its identity. Essence is contrasted with accident: a property that… …
4Cary, Joyce — ▪ British author in full Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary born Dec. 7, 1888, Londonderry, Ire. died March 29, 1957, Oxford, Eng. English novelist who developed a trilogy form in which each volume is narrated by one of three protagonists. Cary… …
5shrinking — Synonyms and related words: Olympian, Sanforizing, aloof, aseptic, atrophy, attenuation, backward, bashful, bashfulness, blank, boggle, boggling, chilled, chilly, cold, compunction, constrained, consumption, cool, cowardly, declining, demur,… …
