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  1. 1. a. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. Source: opted
  3. 3. adj. fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment Source: wordnet
  4. 4. 1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. [Obs.] Condign and worthy praise. Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. Spenser. 2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. "Condign censure." Milman. Unless it were a bloody murderer . . . I never gave them condign punishment. Shak. Source: webster
  5. 5. s. fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment Source: ecdict

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