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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment;
- Example: "condign censure"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Condign \Con*dign"\, a. [F. condigne, L. condignus very worthy; con- + dignus worthy. See Deign, and cf. Digne.] 1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Condign and worthy praise. --Udall. [1913 Webster] Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. "Condign censure." --Milman. [1913 Webster] Unless it were a bloody murderer . . . I never gave them condign punishment. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

condign adj 1: fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment; "condign censure"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

35 Moby Thesaurus words for "condign": according to Hoyle, appropriate, atrocious, awful, becoming, correct, decent, decorous, deserved, dreadful, due, fair, fit, fitting, good, grim, horrible, just, kosher, merited, nice, normal, normative, proper, requisite, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, rigorous, seemly, stern, strict, stringent, suitable