Crossword-Solution: CONDIGN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Condign | a. | Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. |
| Condign | a. | Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “CONDIGN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Denoting appropriate punishment | 1 answer |
| Deserved and appropriate | 1 answer |
| Fitting, as punisnment | 1 answer |
| fitting or appropriate and deserved | 1 answer |
| Well-deserved | 2 answers |
| merited | 10 answers |
| Deserved | 20 answers |
| Lawful | 39 answers |
| Due | 50 answers |
| Adequate | 60 answers |
| Requisite | 60 answers |
| Just | 103 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONDIGN (5)
Sometimes he was upon the verge of tears, and again he was promising his listener either fabulous rewards or condign punishment; but the other was obdurate.
Hicks not only escape condign punishment, but even the pain and mortification of being arraigned before a court of justice.
XXXVIII “But mine was freely given ere ’twas sought, Nor that it lessened be I now consent; Right well know I both when and where I ought To give condign reward and punishment, Since you are all in like subjection brought, Both high and low obey, and be content.” This heard, Tancredi wisely stayed his words, Such weight the sayings have of kings and lords.
The murderers were known, and the principal one was even now in prison for the fact, yet all attempts to bring him to condign punishment had hitherto proved abortive, as he was a Moor, and his victims Christians.
But in history sin always meets with condign punishment; the generation passes, the offence remains, and the innocent must suffer.
Quotes with CONDIGN (1)
The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes - outweighs the risk of error.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1975).