Benedick
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(in Shakespeare'sMuch Ado About Nothing ) the confident bachelor who courts and finally marries Beatrice.
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(lowercase) benedict.
Example Sentences
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His next project was Much Ado About Nothing, a masterpiece, set in an Italian villa with his then partner Emma Thomson playing Beatrice joyfully to his Benedick.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025
“This is perhaps the most historically significant international environmental agreement,” Richard E. Benedick, the chief United States negotiator, said at the time.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024
Beatrice and Benedick aren’t cut from the classic mold.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023
So in the pair of scenes in which Beatrice and Benedick overhear their friends remarking on how much the one loves the other, and vice versa, the eavesdropping is played for outright slapstick.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022
It was wonderful flirting with him, all that razor-edge literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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