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Benedick

[ ben-i-dik ]

/ ˈbɛn ɪ dɪk /

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noun

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

(lowercase) benedict.

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Words nearby Benedick

bendy, bene-, beneath, Beneba, Benedicite, Benedick, benedict, Benedict I, Benedict II, Benedict III, Benedictine

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How to use Benedick in a sentence

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