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Duel vs Spadassinicide - What's the difference?

duel | spadassinicide |

As nouns the difference between duel and spadassinicide

is that duel is arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor while spadassinicide is the act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder.

As a verb duel

is to engage in a battle.

duel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
  • Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat)
  • Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas.

    • Verb

  • To engage in a battle.

    • Related terms

    * duellist * duello * truel

    See also

    dual

    Anagrams

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    spadassinicide

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder.
  • One who performs such an act.
  • * 1921 , ,
    • Challenges are flying right and left between these bully-swordsmen, these spadassinicides , and poor devils of the robe who have never learnt to fence with anything but a quill.