The Collaborative International Dictionary
Condign \Con*dign"\, a. [F. condigne, L. condignus very worthy; con- + dignus worthy. See Deign, and cf. Digne.]
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Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. [Obs.]
Condign and worthy praise.
--Udall.Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign.
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Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. ``Condign censure.''
--Milman.Unless it were a bloody murderer . . . I never gave them condign punishment.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "well-deserved," from Old French condigne "deserved, appropriate, equal in wealth," from Latin condignus "wholly worthy," from com- "together, altogether" (see com-) + dignus "worthy" (see dignity). Of punishment, "deservedly severe," from 1510s, which by Johnson's day (1755) was the only use.
Wiktionary
a. (context rare English) fitting, appropriate, deserved, especially denoting punishment
WordNet
adj. fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment; "condign censure"
Wikipedia
Condign may refer to:
- Condign merit, an aspect of Roman Catholic theology signifying a goodness that has been bestowed because of the actions of that person
- Project Condign, a top-secret UFO study undertaken by the British government between 1997 and 2000
Usage examples of "condign".
It was condign: it belonged' She could believe that the Earth's gutrock would remember such things.
If its influences are not guided and controlled by a condign hand, its power must destroy them.
And I offered the support and aid of the Masters in any condign quest which might oppose Corruption.
The task appeared to please him, as if it were condign work for an Haruchai.
She was snared by the old seduction of death-the preterite and immedicable conviction that any violence directed at her was condign, that she deserved the punishment she had always denied.
Thought of Dorothy Lowther, who now hated him, and whom Buckingham had threatened with condign punishment if, in revenge for the fashion in which Kit had treated her, she told Celia Antiquis of the bet of which the whole court knew.
Dorothy had complained to Lady Castlemaine that Buckipgham had threatened her with condign punishment if she betrayed the bet to Celia, and Barbara I~ad first laughed at her and then thought that she might use her.
Swiveller advanced with the view of inflicting upon him condign chastisement.
All the time he kept on treasuring with condign satisfaction each and every crumb of trektalk, covetous of his neighbour's word, and if ever, during a Munda conversazione commoted in the nation's interest, delicate tippits were thrown out to him touching his evil courses by some wellwishers, vainly pleading by scriptural arguments with the opprobrious papist about trying to brace up for the kidos of the thing, Scally wag, and be a men instead of a dem scrounger, dish it all, such as: Pray, what is the meaning, sousy, of that continental expression, if you ever came acrux it, we think it is a word transpiciously like canaille?