Meaning of condign | Babel Free

Definitions

Fitting, appropriate, deserved, especially denoting punishment.

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Examples

“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.”

“Can liberals accept⟳ that an undervote usually reflects either voter carelessness, for which the voter suffers the condign punishment of an unrecorded preference, or it reflects the voter's choice not to express⟳ a preference?”

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