Benedick
Americannoun
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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.
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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
Joshua Bitton’s Benedick has the blue-collar humor of one of Stanley Kowalski’s poker buddies from “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Beatrice and Benedick aren’t cut from the classic mold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
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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