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  1. dueling

    A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two people, with matched weapons, in accordance with agreed-upon rules. During the 17th and 18th centuries (and earlier), duels were mostly single combats fought with swords (the rapier and later the small sword), but beginning in the late 18th century in England, duels were more commonly fought using pistols. Fencing and shooting continued to co-exist throughout the 19th century. The duel was based on a code of honor. Duels were fought not so much to kill the opponent as to gain "satisfaction", that is, to restore one's honor by demonstrating a willingness to risk one's life for it, and as such the tradition of dueling was originally reserved for the male members of nobility; however, in the modern era, it extended to those of the upper classes generally. On occasion, duels with swords or pistols were fought between women.Legislation against dueling goes back to the medieval period. The Fourth Council of the Lateran (1215) outlawed duels, and civil legislation in the Holy Roman Empire against dueling was passed in the wake of the Thirty Years' War. From the early 17th century, duels became illegal in the countries where they were practiced. Dueling largely fell out of favour in England by the mid-19th century and in Continental Europe by the turn of the 20th century. Dueling declined in the Eastern United States in the 19th century and by the time of the American Civil War, dueling had begun to wane even in the South. Public opinion, not legislation, caused the change. Research has linked the decline of dueling to increases in state capacity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Duelingnoun

    the act or practice of fighting in single combat. Also adj

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. dueling

    See Appendix, Articles of War, 26, 27.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. DUELING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Dueling is ranked #133048 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Dueling surname appeared 127 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Dueling.

    97.6% or 124 total occurrences were White.

Anagrams for dueling »

  1. eluding

  2. indulge

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dueling in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dueling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of dueling in a Sentence

  1. Kendall Coffey:

    This is not about dueling lawyers; this is about lawyers as problem solvers." Kendall Coffey on the pending presidential election.

  2. Rudy Giuliani:

    Dueling experts can come to different conclusions, in context, using cash would make no sense because the transaction is between two corporations.

  3. Art Hogan:

    To the extent that you got dueling positive monetary policy statements in two places that we were concerned about a slowdown in economic growth, that's very good, China's is more substantive because they are actually doing something.

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