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.
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