monomachy means A fight or other contest between two people or forces; a duel; single combat. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
MONOMACHY — [Noun] A duel or single combat; a fight or contest between two people or forces. From Middle French monomachie, from Latin monomachia, from Greek monomachia, from mono- ("single") + machē ("fight, battle"). Unlike a formal "duel" with its seconds and codified rituals, or the plural chaos of a "melee," monomachy is the stark, elemental architecture of opposition itself. It is the gladiators circling in the dust of the arena, the stags with locked antlers in a silent wood, or two chess masters immobile before their pieces—the profound solitude where all conflict distills into the intimate calculus of one will against another. We are forever drawn to the arena because, in the end, all politics and all war are merely monomachy multiplied into a lie.
noun
- A fight or other contest between two people or forces; a duel; single combat.“He that shall observe […] so much emulation, envy, so many brawls, quarrels, monomachies, etc., may well require what is become of charity?”