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ADJECTIVE
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fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment
condign censure
How To Use condign In A Sentence
- He was pursued up the tunnel by Jock and had to lock himself in the dressing room to avoid condign punishment.
- condign censure
- 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.
- Hereon they dispute about the merit and satisfactoriness of those works, with their condignity of the reward of eternal life. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
- From this we note that the Guardian too does not regard support for sharia law – which involves of necessity subordinating English law and liberty to principles such as condign punishment for gays and adulterers, second class status and misery for women and ... On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- 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?
- A month later, condign civilian behaviour is less easy to judge.
- 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.
- Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd - 7th Century A.D." offers a corrective to the rampant consumerism of our day with a condign lesson in Christianity's classical roots and intense devotions while also reminding us that a trade in objects flourished from its earliest times. Transformational Objects
- But I felt that Tommy's championing of the lit de soleil, as it's known in Maryhill, was courageous and condign. Great Scot, what a bunch of true heroes | Kevin McKenna