Definition of "benedick" []

• A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage. (noun)

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• "The bachelor and the spinster both sometimes wonder that the benedick and the bride are still their rivals; for they know not that"
• "(a newlywed in Much Ado About Nothing), spelled benedict or benedick, is a ` newly married man, in particular, one who had a long bachelorhood. '"