单词 | condignity |
释义 | condignityn. a. Worthiness, merit. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > worth > [noun] worthOE worthfulnessOE price?c1225 savour?c1225 aughtshipc1275 dearworthinessc1325 worthiness1372 preciousnessc1390 richesa1400 preciosity1402 valeur1433 valurec1440 preciousheadc1450 vail1471 paragea1475 valour?a1475 availa1522 vailance1532 validity1593 carat1600 condignity1605 valiant1606 esteeming1609 self-worth1610 telling1636 valuableness?1649 worthship1664 treasurableness1898 1605 J. Sylvester in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. Corona Dedicatoria sig. A6 To sing to our Posteritie This Noblest Woorke, After it Selfes Condignitie. 1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 92 While the soul tastes its own act..apprehends the condignity and fitness of it. b. spec. in Scholastic Theology. That worthiness of eternal life which a man may possess through good works performed while in a state of grace. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > grace > doctrine concerning grace > [noun] > condignity condignity1554 condignness1581 1554 T. Sampson in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xviii. 48 They so enwrap themselves with their terms..with merit of congruence and merit of condignity. a1623 W. Pemble Justification 31. 1654 J. Trapp Comm. Job xxxv. 7 The Papists..talk of works of super-erogation, and of..merit of condignity. 1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. v. 72 Able to deserve Grace, neither with the Merit of Condignity, nor with that of Congruity. 1842 W. F. Hook Church Dict. (at cited word) The Scotists maintain that it is possible for man in his natural state so to live as to deserve the Grace of God, by which he may be enabled to obtain salvation; this natural fitness (congruitas) for grace, being such as to oblige the Deity to grant it. Such is the merit of congruity. The Thomists, on the other hand, contend that man, by the divine assistance, is capable of so living as to merit eternal life, to be worthy (condignus) of it in the sight of God. In this hypothesis the question of previous preparation for the grace which enables him to be worthy, is not introduced. This is the merit of condignity. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > deserving (good or ill) > that which is deserved i-wurhtc888 addlingc1175 wrightc1175 meritc1230 desert1393 demerit1399 condignity1653 comeuppance1859 1653 R. Baxter Worcester-shire Petition 17 If God should bring to condignity their Town-Clerks. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 8 Theirs was also the greater condignity of the Block. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1554 |
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