condign
adjective
well-deserved; fitting; adequate.
condignly
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a word derived from
condign.
Example Sentences
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Of a surety, some one had blundered, and “some one” should be condignly punished!
From The Key to Yesterday by Charles Neville Buck
The scream she gave surpassed in loudness that of all the others put together; and brought up several ferocious-looking Turks, bent on condignly punishing the outrageous conduct of the mad Englishman.
From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng
O who were able now condignly to relate how Pantagruel did demean himself against the three hundred giants!
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux
"A villain condignly punished" is a villain punished according to his deserts.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun
Stealing another's thunder is an offence punishable condignly ever since the days of Salmoneus.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various
