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Benedick

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A sworn bachelor caught in the wiles of matrimony, like Benedick in Shakespeare’s comedy of Much Ado about Nothing.

Let our worthy Cantab be bachelor or Benedick, what concern is it of ours.”—Mrs. Edwards: A Girton Girl, chap. xv.

⁂ Benedick and Benedict are used indiscriminately, but the distinction should be observed.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bench and Bar
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Bend Sinister
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Bender
Bendigo
Bendy (Old)
Benedicite
Benedick
Benedict
Benedictines
Benefice
Benefit of Clergy
Benen-geli
Benet (French)
Benèvolence
Benevolus
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