英语词汇condign punishment的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

condign punishment. Just a fancy way of saying an appro- priate punishment, a punishment that fits the crime. Condign (pronounced kun-dine) is from the Latin condignus, “altogether worthy.” The phrase condign punishment has been commonly used since it originated in the Tudor Acts of Parliament, and the two words have become so inseparably yoked that condign is rarely used in any other way. Thomas De Quincey com- plained about this back in 1859, but it did no good: “Capri- ciously . . . the word condign is only used in connection with the word punishment. These and other words, if unlocked from their absurd imprisonment, would become extensively useful. We should say, for example, ‘condign honors,’ ‘condign reward,’ ‘condign treatment’. . . .”

词汇	condign punishment
词源	condign punishment. Just a fancy way of saying an appro- priate punishment, a punishment that fits the crime. Condign (pronounced kun-dine) is from the Latin condignus, “altogether worthy.” The phrase condign punishment has been commonly used since it originated in the Tudor Acts of Parliament, and the two words have become so inseparably yoked that condign is rarely used in any other way. Thomas De Quincey com- plained about this back in 1859, but it did no good: “Capri- ciously . . . the word condign is only used in connection with the word punishment. These and other words, if unlocked from their absurd imprisonment, would become extensively useful. We should say, for example, ‘condign honors,’ ‘condign reward,’ ‘condign treatment’. . . .”
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