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condignity|kənˈdɪgnɪtɪ|
[ad. med.L. condignitas, f. condign-us condign: F. condignité.]
†1. Worthiness, merit. Obs.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas Ded., To sing to our posterity This Noblest Work after it selfs Condignitie. 1668Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 92 While the soul tastes its own act..apprehends the condignity and fitness of it.
b. spec. in Scholastic Theol. That worthiness of eternal life which a man may possess through good works performed while in a state of grace.
1554T. Sampson in Strype Eccl. Mem. III. App. xviii. 48 They so enwrap themselves with their terms..with merit of congruence and merit of condignity. a1623W. Pemble Justif. 31. 1654 Trapp Comm. Job xxxv. 7 The Papists..talk of works of super-erogation, and of..merit of condignity. 1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. 72 Able to deserve Grace, neither with the Merit of Condignity, nor with that of Congruity. 1842Hook Ch. Dict. s.v., The Scotists maintain that it is possible for man in his natural state so to live as to deserve the Grace of God, by which he may be enabled to obtain salvation; this natural fitness (congruitas) for grace, being such as to oblige the Deity to grant it. Such is the merit of congruity. The Thomists, on the other hand, contend that man, by the divine assistance, is capable of so living as to merit eternal life, to be worthy (condignus) of it in the sight of God. In this hypothesis the question of previous preparation for the grace which enables him to be worthy, is not introduced. This is the merit of condignity.
†2. Desert; what one deserves. Obs.
1653Baxter Worc. Petit. Def. 17 If God should bring to condignity their Town-Clerks. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 8 Theirs was also the greater condignity of the Block. |