Benedick

[ ben-i-dik ]

/ ˈbɛn ɪ dɪk /

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(in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing) the confident bachelor who courts and finally marries Beatrice.

(lowercase) benedict.

QUIZZES

Call upon your favorite grammar inspirations to tackle this quiz on the differences and uses of "evoke" and "invoke."

Question 1 of 7

“Evoke” and “invoke” both derive from the same Latin root “vocāre.”

Give me joy, Alphonso; Father Benedick, in this dear and wished-for union, has this moment made me the happiest of mankind.
The Castle of Andalusia|John O'Keeffe
And so in the scene in which she taunts the masked Benedick to desperation.
Ellen Terry and Her Sisters|T. Edgar Pemberton
For obviously she loves Benedick, more or less, from the beginning.
Ellen Terry and Her Sisters|T. Edgar Pemberton
The wit of Beatrice is less good-humored than that of Benedick; or, from the difference of sex, appears so.
Characteristics of Women|Anna Jameson

All I mean is, that, in Benedick's phrase, 'the world must go on.'
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846|Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett