Benedick

[ ben-i-dik ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Give me joy, Alphonso; Father Benedick, in this dear and wished-for union, has this moment made me the happiest of mankind.

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And so in the scene in which she taunts the masked Benedick to desperation.

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For obviously she loves Benedick, more or less, from the beginning.

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The wit of Beatrice is less good-humored than that of Benedick; or, from the difference of sex, appears so.

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All I mean is, that, in Benedick's phrase, 'the world must go on.'

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