Assertion: conscience | /r/CapableOf | become seared with hot iron
Facets:
value: simply
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Thus many persons indulge in things, the lawfulness of which they at first doubt; but directly their conscience becomes so seared that they no longer think with any degree of uneasiness whether it is doubtful or not, and they come to have no doubts about it, simply because their conscience has become seared with a hot iron.