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magdalen
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Word definitions for magdalen in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magdalen \Mag"da*len\, n. [From Mary Magdalene, traditionally reported to have been the repentant sinner forgiven by Christ. See Luke vii. 36.] A reformed prostitute.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"reformed prostitute," 1690s, so called for Mary Magdalene, disciple of Christ (Luke viii:2), who often is identified with the penitent woman in Luke vii:37-50. See Magdalene .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a reformed prostitute
Usage examples of magdalen.
At her earnest request her sister Magdalen came out to her for a time, from the home in England, into which she was wedged so tightly.
You could not look at Magdalen without seeing that she was a happy creature.
His own problematic re-marriage, often discussed in all its pros and cons with Magdalen, was the only possible alliance that ever occupied his thoughts.
She intended that Magdalen should live with her some day at the Towers, as an unpaid companion, when Sir John and Aunt Aggie had entered into peace.
Mary loved Magdalen in a way, yet she never spared her the discussion of that long-ago attachment of her youth, violently mismanaged by Colonel Bellairs.
Even Magdalen, who hurried out to her, supposed at first that she was stunned by grief.
Fay began to shrink from Magdalen, involuntarily at first, then purposely for long moody intervals.
No one could know Magdalen long without seeing that she lived by a kind of spiritual instinct, as real to her as the natural instincts of animals.
You know, Magdalen, it has always been a cross to me that the writing-table in my sitting-room is away from the light.
Magdalen then so old and forlorn, who, when she died, had only been a year or two older than Magdalen herself was now.
Many years ago Magdalen had accepted not without tears, one such offering from a very poor man indeed.
And as Magdalen had listened in silence then so she listened in silence now.
As she knelt before the fire making her confession Magdalen saw that according to her lights she was speaking the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
She had not so far evinced the faintest interest in the dull routine of home duties which are of the nature of kindnesses, and had often reproached Magdalen for spending herself in them.
She had hoped that when she inaugurated them, Magdalen at any rate would have followed suit, would have worked cheerfully under her direction.