Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
benedict .
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- noun A recently
married man,especially one who has long held out againstmarriage .
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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
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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
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(a newlywed in Much Ado About Nothing), spelled benedict or benedick, is a ` newly married man, in particular, one who had a long bachelorhood. '
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