Brewer's: Condign'

Latin; condignus (well worthy); as condign punishment— i.e. punishment well deserved.

“In thy condign praise.”

Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, i. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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