Condign vs Suitable - What's the difference?
condign | suitable | Related terms |
(rare) Fitting, appropriate, deserved, especially denoting punishment
* 1591 ?, William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part ii , Act 3, Scene 1:
* 1885 , William Schwenk Gilbert, The Mikado , Act I:
* 1962 , Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire :
* 2004 , George F. Will, "Voters' Obligations", in The Washington Post , October 21, 2004:
Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.
Condign is a related term of suitable.
As adjectives the difference between condign and suitable
is that condign is (rare) fitting, appropriate, deserved, especially denoting punishment while suitable is having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.condign
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Unless it were a bloody murderer, / Or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers, / I never gave them condign punishment:
- 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 –
- 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.
[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[.]