About The Word Condign
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Condign
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What's The Definition Of Condign?
[adj] fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment; "condign censure"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Condign: merited Related Terms | Find terms related to Condign: according to Hoyle | appropriate | atrocious | awful | becoming | correct | decent | decorous | deserved | dreadful | due | fair | fit | fitting | good | grim | horrible | just | kosher | merited | nice | normal | normative | proper | requisite | right | right and proper | righteous | rightful | rigorous | seemly | stern | strict | stringent | suitable See Also | Condign In Webster's Dictionary \Con*dign"\, a. [F. condigne, L. condignus very worthy;
con- + dignus worthy. See {Deign}, and cf. {Digne}.]
1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. [Obs.]
Condign and worthy praise. --Udall.
Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign.
--Spenser.
2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.
``Condign censure.'' --Milman.
Unless it were a bloody murderer . . . I never gave
them condign punishment. --Shak.
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