How To Use Condign In A Sentence
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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
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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
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In condigne stile and phrase eche thing in euery line,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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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
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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.
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Victims, on the other hand, united only in their grief, plead for no more than the solace that a condign sentence would bring.
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Do not compound this further by harming yourself with doubt, or believing that your treatment is condign.
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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
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Abu Salem's extradition has additional complications, and there is little possibility of his eventually facing condign punishment for his outrageous crimes.
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I may pity him, and even understand his motives, but a murderer is still deserving of condign punishment.
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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 the death sentence for apostates (including those to the Guardian’s favourite religion, atheism) -- as extreme.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Having a string of MPs carted off to start some really condign sentences would be a satisfactory and welcome start to this particular programme.
Archive 2009-04-05
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He was pursued up the tunnel by Jock and had to lock himself in the dressing room to avoid condign punishment.
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So welcome, then, El Hadji Diouf, to Scotland, cradle of the enlightenment and beacon of condign behaviour at all times in a dark world.
Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna
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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
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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
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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.
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A month later, condign civilian behaviour is less easy to judge.
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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?
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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...
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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
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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.
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condign censure