What plea can be urged for encouraging excesses in our possessions abroad, that would be visited with condign punishment in our courts at home?
It gives me sincere pleasure,' he said, in a letter to Joseph Reed, 'to find the Assembly is so well disposed to second your endeavor in bringing those murderers of our cause to condign punishment.
That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong.
Such slackness to execute vengeance would certainly provoke God's patience to anger; the king must visit condign punishment upon the enemies of God and the rebels against his own authority.
Go, then, to the Duke of Argyle, and, when other arguments fail you, tell him you have it in your power to bring to condign punishment the most active conspirator in the Porteous mob.
In vain he stormed and swore in the choicest Arabic, and cast vindictive glances at Pango, threatening him with condign punishment should he ever catch him on shore.
The sea being tolerably calm, and there being no surf, as they neared the shore six boats were at once manned and sent in to inflict condign punishment on the heads of the transgressors.
If a first class man-of-war is driven at midday on a well-known rock he is held responsible for the disaster, and if he inflicts condign punishment on the culpable officers, he is accused of unjust and arbitrary conduct.
Nothing could have been done to stop it which was not done, except the detection and condign punishment of the offenders.
In the course of the debates on the estimates, Fox pledged himself to move, after the Christmas holidays, for the dismissal of the Earl of Sandwich, and afterwards to bring him to condign punishment.
Some of the rioters were captured, and special commissions were sent into the country to try them, and, in many instances, they were brought to condign punishment.
No adequate means were adopted by the government to trace out the offenders, or bring them to the condign punishment so extraordinary an atrocity deserved.
The committee affected likewise to disapprove of the riot, and some few of the ringleaders were sought for and found, under the pretence of bringing them to condign punishment.
If, as some have conjectured, Adonijah had once urged on his father thecondign punishment of Absalom, he might well congratulate himself on receiving pardon.
It was a consummate crime, and it was followed by swift and condign judgment.
The house however voted an address to the king, desiring that the authors of the miscarriages might be brought to condign punishment.
As the brother was universally hated for the insolence and brutality of his disposition, information was given against him, and a resolution formed to bring him to condign punishment.
The privateer touched at Vigo, where the captain imparted this detail to the English consul; but the prize, with the two villains on board, was sent to Bayonne in France, where they were brought to condign punishment.
Next day addresses to the lord-lieutenant were agreed to by both houses of parliament, and a committee of inquiry appointed, that the ringleaders of the tumult might be discovered and brought to condign punishment.
Some of them were detected accordingly, and brought to condign punishment.
They declared their resolution to inquire into these fatal miscarriages; to trace out those measures whereon the pretender placed his hopes, and bring the authors of them to condign punishment.
Then they presented an address to his majesty, desiring that the most effectual means might be taken for discovering the author, printer, or publisher, that he or they might be brought to condign punishment.
Notwithstanding this rapid spread of prostitution, the police of the city can not justly be charged with neglect of duty, any public outrage being followed by condign punishment.
In the other case, he defrauds his neighbor of some dollars and cents, and the indignant community demands his condign punishment!
Poulailler having done his best to render a worthy family happy, went his way, to inflict condign punishment on the poltroon who had so readily given up the purse and the watches.
They wished also to visit Sam-Chung with condign punishment which would render him helpless for the future.
Rome was seized 20 September, and the Franco-Prussian war brought swift and condign punishment on Napoleon for his complicity.
Then the little comedy was enacted at the Palais Bourbon, and the whole Socialist Ministerial Press clamoured, hysterically, for condign punishment of the Vatican and the vindication of the national honour.
But that condign chastisement be inflicted for this insult, that I will also guarantee.
As to that herd in the block of Castor and Pollux, they are reserved for condign punishment, unless my dear lady return at once.
So cried the Bernaere; "but condign penalties you must suffer for your crime.
Muy was moderate, and that he would temper the headlong fury of the others; but I heard him say that Voltaire merited condign punishment.
If they decided to aid, counsel or abet the Sacs, or harbor them in their country, such acts would be received as a declaration of war and would be visited with condign punishment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "condign" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
