adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a conscientious manner; in accordance with one’s sense of duty; scrupulously.

1

a. 1660.  Hammond, Wks., II. 181 (R.). Conscientiously obliged not to take it into his own hands.

2

1691.  South, Serm., 1 John iii. 21, in Twelve Serm. (1727), II. 408. Sin does not therefore cease to be Sin, because a Man committed it conscientiously.

3

1874.  Parker, Goth. Archit., I. iii. 98. The east end … was carefully and conscientiously restored … by G. G. Scott.

4

1882.  Howells, in Longm. Mag., I. 45. The village is conscientiously clean.

5