monomachy
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French monomachie, or its source, Latin monomachia. Also mono- + -machy.
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[edit]Noun
[edit]monomachy (plural monomachies)
- (now rare) A fight or other contest between two people or forces; a duel; single combat. [from 16th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 1, member 3:
- He that shall observe […] so much emulation, envy, so many brawls, quarrels, monomachies, etc., may well require what is become of charity?
- 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 13, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
- Wherefore we most heartily provoke, challenge, and defy your Lordship to the said combat and monomachy […]
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