Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See benedict.

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  • noun A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage.

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  • noun a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor)

Etymologies

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From the character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

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Examples

  • The bachelor and the spinster both sometimes wonder that the benedick and the bride are still their rivals; for they know not that

    Hints for Lovers 1899

  • (a newlywed in Much Ado About Nothing), spelled benedict or benedick, is a ` newly married man, in particular, one who had a long bachelorhood. '

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3 1986

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