Vnlesse it were a bloody Murtherer, Or foule felonious Theefe, that fleec'd poore passengers, I neuer gaue them condigne punishment.
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Condign
//kənˈdaɪn//
Synonyms for "condign" (37 found)
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13 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- заслужен adj (fitting)
French
1 entries- condigne adj (fitting)
German
4 entries- angemessen adj (fitting)
- gebührend adj (fitting)
- gerechte adj (fitting)
- passend adj (fitting)
Hungarian
3 entries- jogos adj (fitting)
- megérdemelt adj (fitting)
- méltó adj (fitting)
Middle English
2 entries- condigne adj (fitting)
- digne adj (fitting)
Russian
1 entries- заслу́женный adj (fitting)
Ukrainian
1 entries- заслу́жений adj (fitting)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Consider, then, who is your best friend: he that would have brought him to condign punishment, or he that has saved him?
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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.
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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—
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