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benedict
noun
a recently married man, esp. one who seemed to be a confirmed bachelor
noun
a masculine name: var. Bennet, Bennett
- Benedict, Saint ( 480?-543?); It. monk: founder of the Benedictine order: his day is July 11also called Saint Benedict of Nursia
- , Benedict XIV (born Prospero Lambertini) 1675-1758; pope (1740-58)
- (born Giacomo della Chiesa) 1854-1922; pope (1914-22)
- (born Joseph Ratzinger) 1927-; pope (2005-)
- Benedict, Ruth (Fulton) 1887-1948; U.S. anthropologist
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