prisoner of conscience
noun
Definition of prisoner of conscience
: someone who is held in prison because of his or her political or religious beliefs
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prisonerplay
: a person deprived of liberty and kept under involuntary restraint, confinement, or custody
: one on trial or in prison
: someone restrained as if in prison
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conscienceplay
: the sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good
: a faculty, power, or principle enjoining good acts
: the part of the superego in psychoanalysis that transmits commands and admonitions to the ego
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