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Equitable vs Condign - What's the difference?

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Equitable is a related term of condign.


As adjectives the difference between equitable and condign

is that equitable is just, equitable, fair while condign is (rare) fitting, appropriate, deserved, especially denoting punishment.

equitable

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Marked by or having equity.
  • Fair, just, or impartial.
  • * 1748 , , Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 33.
    • I may justly require you to produce that argument; nor have you any pretence to refuse so equitable a demand.
  • (legal) Relating to the general principles of justice that correct or supplement the provisions of the law.

    • Related terms

    * equity

    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[.]