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Condign vs Condignness - What's the difference?

condign | condignness |

As an adjective condign

is (rare) fitting, appropriate, deserved, especially denoting punishment.

As a noun condignness is

the state or quality of being condign.

condign

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (rare) Fitting, appropriate, deserved, especially denoting punishment
  • * 1591 ?, William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part ii , Act 3, Scene 1:
    • Unless it were a bloody murderer, / Or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers, / I never gave them condign punishment:
  • * 1885 , William Schwenk Gilbert, The Mikado , Act I:
    • Pooh-bah: And so, / Although / I wish to go, / And greatly pine / To brightly shine, / And take the line / Of a hero fine, / With grief condign / I must decline –
  • * 1962 , Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire :
    • For a Christian, no Beyond is acceptable or imaginable without the participation of God in our eternal destiny, and this in turn implies a condign punishment for every sin, great and small.
  • * 2004 , George F. Will, "Voters' Obligations", in The Washington Post , October 21, 2004:
    • [A]n undervote usually reflects either voter carelessness, for which the voter suffers the condign punishment of an unrecorded preference, or reflects the voter's choice not to express a preference[.]

    condignness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being condign.