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Worthiness vs Condignity - What's the difference?

worthiness | condignity |

As nouns the difference between worthiness and condignity

is that worthiness is (uncountable) the state or quality of having value or merit while condignity is the condition of being condign; merit or worthiness.

worthiness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of having value or merit.
  • (countable) The result or product of having value or merit.
  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being qualified or eligible.
  • (countable) The result or product of being qualified or eligible.

    • condignity

    English

    Noun

  • The condition of being condign; merit or worthiness
  • * Bishop George Bull
    • Our obedience to God ought to be such, as that it may have, tho' not a merit of condignity to deserve everlasting bliss, (that being, as I have shewn you, utterly impossible) yet an ordinability, as a great doctor of our church expresseth it, that is, a meetness, fitness, and due disposition toward the obtaining it.