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How To Use condign In A Sentence

• Neither could the needs of any other man whatsoever have merited this union condignly: first, because the meritorious works of man are properly ordained to beatitude, which is the reward of virtue, and consists in the full enjoyment of God. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• I doubt not a justice-loving public will have remarked, ere this, that I have thus far shown a criminal remissness in pursuing, catching, and bringing to condign punishment the would-be assassin of Mr. Robert Moore: here was a fine opening to lead my willing readers a dance, at once decorous and exciting: a dance of law and gospel, of the dungeon, the dock, and the 'dead-thraw.' Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
• In condigne stile and phrase eche thing in euery line, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
• Adequate merit, also called condign merit, is merit in the strictest sense of the term; it requires proportion between service and reward. Condign and Congruous Merit
• There will be condign punishment for any MSP who fails to make at least one long and tedious speech a month about a minor constituency matter.
• Victims, on the other hand, united only in their grief, plead for no more than the solace that a condign sentence would bring.
• Do not compound this further by harming yourself with doubt, or believing that your treatment is condign.
• Gusty, put the names of all offenders down on a slate, and when I return 'condign' is the word; an 'see, Gusty -- mairk me well -- no bribery -- no bread nor buttons, nor any other materials of corruption from the culprits -- otherwise you shall become their substitute in the castigation, and I shall teach you to look one way and feel another, my worthy con-disciple. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
• Abu Salem's extradition has additional complications, and there is little possibility of his eventually facing condign punishment for his outrageous crimes.
• I may pity him, and even understand his motives, but a murderer is still deserving of condign punishment.