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Definition of condign in English: condignadjective kənˈdʌɪnkənˈdaɪn formal (of punishment or retribution) appropriate to the crime or wrongdoing; fitting and deserved. condign punishment was rare when the criminal was a man of high social standing Example sentencesExamples - Victims, on the other hand, united only in their grief, plead for no more than the solace that a condign sentence would bring.
- Can liberals accept that an undervote usually reflects either voter carelessness, for which the voter suffers the condign punishment of an unrecorded preference, or reflects the voter's choice not to express a preference?
- Abu Salem's extradition has additional complications, and there is little possibility of his eventually facing condign punishment for his outrageous crimes.
- There will be condign punishment for any MSP who fails to make at least one long and tedious speech a month about a minor constituency matter.
- Strategic targets involve the use of large devices in order to create massive and condign destruction; tactical ones would be attacked by smaller devices with effects limited to an immediate and defined area.
- A month later, condign civilian behaviour is less easy to judge.
- I may pity him, and even understand his motives, but a murderer is still deserving of condign punishment.
- Do not compound this further by harming yourself with doubt, or believing that your treatment is condign.
- As he points out, if the allegation were true, this leak would constitute a serious breach of national security and would merit condign punishment under a 1982 law.
- He was pursued up the tunnel by Jock and had to lock himself in the dressing room to avoid condign punishment.
Synonyms well earned, well deserved, earned, merited, warranted, justified, justifiable
Derivatives adverb formal The Roundabout revival features a convincingly horrendous set by John Lee Beatty, aptly atmospheric costuming by Jane Greenwood, and condignly murky lighting by Peter Kaczorowski. Example sentencesExamples - These two are condignly seconded by the other thespians.
- Prodigal scenery by Giles Cadle and lavishly impudent costumes by William Ivey Long are condignly lighted by Kenneth Posner; Lane and Bart, inspired comedians, make the good jokes resonate and the poorer ones bearable.
- Granted, he looks condignly mistakable for his sister, and tries, I imagine, to sound subduedly like her; he still gives a waterlogged performance.
- Angela Wendt's costumes and Russell H. Champa's lighting condignly complete the picture.
Origin Late Middle English (in the general sense 'worthy, appropriate'): from Old French condigne, from Latin condignus, from con- 'altogether' + dignus 'worthy'. Rhymes align, assign, benign, brine, chine, cline, combine, confine, consign, dine, divine, dyne, enshrine, entwine, fine, frontline, hardline, interline, intertwine, kine, Klein, line, Main, malign, mine, moline, nine, on-line, opine, outshine, pine, Rhein, Rhine, shine, shrine, sign, sine, spine, spline, stein, Strine, swine, syne, thine, tine, trine, twine, Tyne, underline, undermine, vine, whine, wine Definition of condign in US English: condignadjectivekənˈdīnkənˈdaɪn formal (of punishment or retribution) appropriate to the crime or wrongdoing; fitting and deserved. condign punishment was rare when the criminal was a man of high social standing Example sentencesExamples - He was pursued up the tunnel by Jock and had to lock himself in the dressing room to avoid condign punishment.
- As he points out, if the allegation were true, this leak would constitute a serious breach of national security and would merit condign punishment under a 1982 law.
- Can liberals accept that an undervote usually reflects either voter carelessness, for which the voter suffers the condign punishment of an unrecorded preference, or reflects the voter's choice not to express a preference?
- Do not compound this further by harming yourself with doubt, or believing that your treatment is condign.
- I may pity him, and even understand his motives, but a murderer is still deserving of condign punishment.
- A month later, condign civilian behaviour is less easy to judge.
- Victims, on the other hand, united only in their grief, plead for no more than the solace that a condign sentence would bring.
- Strategic targets involve the use of large devices in order to create massive and condign destruction; tactical ones would be attacked by smaller devices with effects limited to an immediate and defined area.
- There will be condign punishment for any MSP who fails to make at least one long and tedious speech a month about a minor constituency matter.
- Abu Salem's extradition has additional complications, and there is little possibility of his eventually facing condign punishment for his outrageous crimes.
Synonyms well earned, well deserved, earned, merited, warranted, justified, justifiable
Origin Late Middle English (in the general sense ‘worthy, appropriate’): from Old French condigne, from Latin condignus, from con- ‘altogether’ + dignus ‘worthy’. |