condign

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/kənˈdʌɪn/ (UK)
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/kənˈdʌɪn/ (UK) · /kənˈdaɪn/ (US)

Definition of condign

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Fitting, appropriate, deserved, especially denoting punishment.
    “Vnlesse it were a bloody Murtherer, Or foule felonious Theefe, that fleec'd poore passengers, I neuer gaue them condigne punishment.”
    “Consider, then, who is your best friend: he that would have brought him to condign punishment, or he that has saved him?”
    “When our Mahmouds or Selims of Baker Street or Belgrave Square visit their Fatimas with condign punishment, their mothers sew up Fatima’s sack for her, and her sisters and sisters-in-law see her well under water.”
    “Pooh-bah. […] And so, / Although / I wish to go, / And greatly pine / To brightly shine, / And take the line / Of a hero fine, / With grief condign / I must decline—”
    “For a Christian, no Beyond is acceptable or imaginable without the participation of God in our eternal destiny, and this in turn implies a condign punishment for every sin, great and small.”

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Etymology

From Middle English condigne, from Old French condigne, from Latin condignus, from con- + dignus (“worthy”). Compare deign.

Anagrams of condign

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