Meaning & use
Benedick
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A newly married man, especially one who had long been a confirmed bachelor.
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Friends teased the lifelong bachelor about becoming a benedick at fifty.
The newspaper column joked about the reluctant benedick's sudden domestic bliss.
A note on using this word
Derived from Benedick, the witty confirmed bachelor who finally marries in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing."
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