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View synonyms for single combat

single combat

noun

  1. combat between two persons.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of single combat1

First recorded in 1600–10
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Example Sentences

Then Fitzmaurice objected to single combat, and proposed that there should be fifty a side.

So might a despairing soul beat against the gates of hell and summon the devil to single combat.

We even hear of William challenging Harold to decide the dispute by single combat.

Only with the dawn of the political era do we find regulated single combat.

Du Chastel on the other hand maintained that he had not sworn, and he challenged the captain to meet him in single combat.

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