different between condign vs condignity

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?da?n/

Adjective

condign (comparative more condign, superlative most condign)

1. (rare) Fitting, appropriate, deserved, especially denoting punishment
   • 1591?, William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part ii, Act 3, Scene 1:

     Unless it were a bloody murderer, / Or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers, / I never gave them condign punishment:

   • 1885, William Schwenk Gilbert, The Mikado, Act I:

     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 –

   • 2004, George F. Will, "Voters' Obligations", in The Washington Post, October 21, 2004:

     [A]n 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[.]

Derived terms

• condignity

Translations

Anagrams

• conding

English

Etymology

condign +? -ity

Noun

condignity (countable and uncountable, plural condignities)

1. The condition of being condign; merit or worthiness
   • a. 1710, George Bull, The Worthiness of the Partakers of future Glory (sermon)

     Our obedience to God ought to be such, as that it may have, tho' not a merit of condignity to deserve everlasting bliss, (that being, as I have shewn you, utterly impossible) yet an ordinability, as a great doctor of our church expresseth it, that is, a meetness, fitness, and due disposition toward the obtaining it.