| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | con·dign |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k n-d n |
| ADJECTIVE: | Deserved; adequate: “On sober reflection, such worries over a man's condign punishment seemed senseless” (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New Yorker October 23, 1995). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English condigne, from Old French, from Latin condignus : com-, intensive pref.; see com– + dignus, worthy; see dek- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | con·dignly —ADVERB
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