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What does condign mean?

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Adjective
  1. (rare) Fitting, appropriate, deserved, especially denoting punishment
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There will be condign punishment for any MSP who fails to make at least one long and tedious speech a month about a minor constituency matter.
I may pity him, and even understand his motives, but a murderer is still deserving of condign punishment.
Yet I feel that the shared love of detail and nuance that each brought to his canvas makes the comparison a condign one.
Abu Salem's extradition has additional complications, and there is little possibility of his eventually facing condign punishment for his outrageous crimes.
As he points out, if the allegation were true, this leak would constitute a serious breach of national security and would merit condign punishment under a 1982 law.
Summary and condign was the punishment that fell on the unlucky Jenny.

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