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Benedict

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A bachelor, not necessarily one pledged to celibacy, but simply a man of marriageable age, not married. St. Benedict was a most uncompromising stickler for celibacy.

“Is it not a pun? There is an old saying, ‘Needles and pins; when a man marries his trouble begins.ʹ If so, the unmarried man is benedictus.”—Life in the West.

 

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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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Bendemeer
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Bendigo
Bendy (Old)
Benedicite
Benedick
Benedict
Benedictines
Benefice
Benefit of Clergy
Benen-geli
Benet (French)
Benèvolence
Benevolus
Bengal Tigers
Bengalese
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