Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

condignité

(Scholastic Theol.)

Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence.

Such a worthiness of

condignity

, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings.

Bp. Bull.

Noun.

Merit; desert. In school divinity, the merit of human actions which claims reward, on the score of justice.