condignity
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Etymology ===
From condign + -ity.
=== Noun ===
condignity (countable and uncountable, plural condignities)
The condition of being condign; merit or worthiness.
a. 1710, George Bull, The Worthiness of the Partakers of future Glory (sermon)
Our obedience to God ought to be such, as that it may have, tho' not a merit of condignity to deserve everlasting bliss, (that being, as I have shewn you, utterly impossible) yet an ordinability, as a great doctor of our church expresseth it, that is, a meetness, fitness, and due disposition toward the obtaining it.