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Definitions
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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