"conscience money" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1865 November 23, “From Washington”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-08-24",
          "text": "The Secretary of the Treasury is almost daily in receipt of installments of conscience-money, which the perturbed moral sense of a guilty office-holder or other defrauder of the government suggests the payment of in order to obtain \"a still and quiet conscience.\"",
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          "ref": "1918, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 1, in Oh, Money! Money!",
          "text": "\"Whatever I've done, I've always been criticized. . . . If I donated to a church, it was called conscience money; and if I didn't donate to it, they said I was mean and miserly.\"",
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          "ref": "1994 May 3, Richard Dowden, “most-south-africans-will-not-see-newfound-wealth-overnight-says-richard-dowden-1433381.html Big Mac and Coke? Not so fast . . .: Most South Africans will not see new-found wealth overnight”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-08-24",
          "text": "Other US companies, keen to be seen making the politically correct investment now, are bringing ‘conscience money’ to the new South Africa.",
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          "text": "He described the aid work done by religious missions as \"conscience money\" to make up for the harm they have done.",
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        "Money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt, and seeks to provide compensation, for some past misdeed or negligence."
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        "(idiomatic) Money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt, and seeks to provide compensation, for some past misdeed or negligence."
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          "sense": "money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt",
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          "ref": "1865 November 23, “From Washington”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-08-24",
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