condign
/kənˈdaɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "And we [...] command all our officers [...], and loyal subjects, [...] transmit to one of our [...] secretaries [...] full information of all persons [...] abetting the persons now in open arms and rebellion [...] in North America [...] to bring to condign punishment the authors [...] of such traitorous designs."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English condigne, from Old French condigne, from Latin condignus, from con- + dignus (“worthy”). Compare deign.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kənˈdaɪn/
- British English: /kənˈdʌɪn/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more condign (comparative)
most condign (superlative)