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Adjective : condign punishment. From Dictionary.com.
Adequate merit, also called condign merit, is merit in the strictest sense of the term; it requires proportion between service and reward. From Wordnik.com. [Condign and Congruous Merit] Reference
One trusts he received condign punishment for Islamophobia. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Even that trial was to be immediate, comprehensive, and condign. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
Again, merit would seem to be condign if it is equal to the reward. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
Perot is condign punishment for parties that let themselves fall into such hands. From Wordnik.com. [That Man On Horseback] Reference
At best his future in Egypt would be mere toleration; the worst, condign punishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
If any person injured one of those birds, condign punishment was sure to overtake him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Forceful, as well it should be and needs to be - and supremely condign in every measure. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
In vain did he threaten them with condign punishment, and at last actually resort to flogging. From Wordnik.com. [John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub] Reference
"I must have given you a fright, worthy ancestor, so I come to-day to receive condign punishment.". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
On the second point: intercessory prayer depends on mercy, whereas merit depends on condign justice. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
I answer: no man can merit his restoration after a future lapse, either by condign or by congruous merit. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
They wished also to visit Sam-Chung with condign punishment which would render him helpless for the future. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
The deepest wish of his heart was to reconcile them, not by formal treaty, but in loving and condign union. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
This feeling is provided at last with its full satisfaction in the condign punishment visited on the impostor. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
On the first point: the faith of some avails for the healing of others by congruous merit, not by condign merit. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
On the other hand: that which is given in accordance with a righteous judgment would seem to be a condign reward. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
A band of the latter was dispatched to inflict condign punishment upon him, and he met with his death at their hands. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
Let them walk off; and let them make haste, or they may be assured that speedy and condign punishment will overtake them. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
The Admissions Code may indeed be (regrettably) the law of the land, but it is being applied here with condign literalism. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Hence for condign satisfaction it was necessary that the act of the one satisfying should have an infinite efficiency, as being of. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
She took me behind a door to tell me, and imparted the information in a whisper, as if she were afraid of condign punishment if overheard. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Searching for the word which will bring her back to her senses, I writhe in condign pain witnessing the emotional cacophony which subsumes her. From Wordnik.com. [Searching for the Word] Reference
However, their partnership was of no very long continuance, for in nine or ten days they were all apprehended and brought to condign punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
Thus was this diabolical scheme happily rendered abortive, and the authors of it brought to that condign punishment which their wickedness merited. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
For the effectual protection of the city, it should be proclaimed that condign punishment will overtake the person who lights fires by the day time. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
He is generally to be found by the exploring penknife or trowel close by the scene of his crime, and is thus easily subjected to condign punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
A superstitious multitude flocked together to see and gloat over the condign punishment of a heretic, and gave no word of encouragement and support. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
In the course of his sulphury remarks he threatened condign punishment upon the base miscreant who should dare use his penknife on one of those desks. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences were described as "being too flagitious to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
First, we need to recognize the lesson bequethed to us by the Soviet Union: the condign powers of nation states are unable to roll back the laws of economics. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Bruno Sanz: An Ounce of Gold and Ounce of Cocaine, a Trillion Dollar Deficit and a War in Vain] Reference
However, Clinton's humiliation at the hands of his own party was condign punishment for his emotive politics -- his reduction of liberalism to sentimentalism. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton Feels His Own Pain] Reference
There is no true man, white or black, who would not rejoice to see condign punishment visited upon the brute legally proven guilty of this most diabolical crime. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
There is no more salutary or democratic antidote to corruption than the sack and, where appropriate, condign punishment through the exercise of the criminal law. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Some of the rioters were captured, and special commissions were sent into the country to try them, and, in many instances, they were brought to condign punishment. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
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