a. Obs. [f. as prec.: cf. conscientious.] = prec. Hence † Contraconscientiously adv., against conscience.
1648. Jenkyn, Blind Guide, iv. 71. You dealt very contraconscientiously to say so.
1649. Lightfoot, Batt. Wasps Nest, Wks. 1825, I. 422. He wickedly and, it is to be feared, contra-conscientiously wrests and wrings in John xiii.
1901. S. E. Mezes, Ethics, 54. Conscientious action is genuinely moral and contra-conscientious action is immoral.
