Word Meanings - CONDIGN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. Condign and worthy praise. Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. Spenser. 2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. "Condign censure." Milman. Unless it were a bloody murderer

Additional info about word: CONDIGN

1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. Condign and worthy praise. Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. Spenser. 2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. "Condign censure." Milman. Unless it were a bloody murderer . . . I never gave them condign punishment. Shak.

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• CONDIGN
  1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. Condign and worthy praise. Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. Spenser. 2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. "Condign censure." Milman. Unless it were a bloody murderer
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• DESERVE
  1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• CONDIGNNESS
  Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness.
• DESERVEDLY
  According to desert ; justly.
• FAULT
  A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
• FAULTING
  The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
• DESERVING
  Desert; merit. A person of great deservings from the republic. Swift.
• CRIME
  which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction
• PRAISEMENT
  Appraisement.
• CRIMELESS
  Free from crime; innocent. Shak.
• CENSURE
  1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited.
• PRAISELESS
  Without praise or approbation.
• ADEQUATE
  Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey. Syn. -- Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable;
• FAULT-FINDING
  The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• UNDESERVER
  One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.
• FALSICRIMEN
  The crime of falsifying. Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.