monomachist

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noun

One who fights in single combat; a duellist.

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Meanings

nounmonomachist (plural monomachists)

plural monomachists

  1. One who fights in single combat; a duellist.
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    These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistle.

    1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236

Origin

From monomachy or monomachia + -ist.

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APA

monomachist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monomachist

MLA

“monomachist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monomachist. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “monomachist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monomachist.

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