Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a condign manner; according to merit; deservedly; justly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb According to merit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb especially of a punishment
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Examples
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A reasonably good start occurring, he succeeded, after a short but smart run, and some rather severe cross – country work under and over the bedsteads, and in and out among the intricacies of the chairs, in capturing this infant, whom he condignly punished, and bore to bed.
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For someone not to receive a reward they have merited condignly is a violation of personal justice -- the one who fails to reward them has wronged them, simply in virtue of the fact that they did what they did.
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Ironically and quite condignly, the ravening burst of disruptive violet energy that emerged from the modified projector when it was activated incinerated Wood entirely, along with half of Blondlot's lab.
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O who were able now condignly to relate how Pantagruel did demean himself against the three hundred giants!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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O who were able now condignly to relate how Pantagruel did demean himself against the three hundred giants!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Now what is merited condignly is received for the sake of merit, not for mercy's sake.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
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I answer: as we said in Arts. 6 and 7, that to which the moving of grace extends is merited condignly.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
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It seems that a man in grace cannot merit eternal life condignly.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
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For by the gift of grace each one of us is so moved by God that he may attain to eternal life, and eternal life cannot be merited condignly by anything other than God's moving.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
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But we do not say that anyone is worthy of something good unless he has merited it condignly.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
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