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condign

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7 lettersPronunciation /kənˈdʌɪn/Part of speech adjectiveSorted cdginnoStarts with CEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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