Crossword clues for magdalene
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Latin (Maria) Magdalena, from Greek Magdalene, literally "woman of Magdala," from Aramaic Maghdela, place on the Sea of Galilee, literally "tower." The vernacular form of the name, via French, has come to English as maudlin.
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Magdalene or Magdalen may refer to:
- Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus
- Magdalene (given name), a feminine given name (and list of persons with that name)
- Magdalen College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford
- Magdalene College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge
- Magdalen Islands, an archipelago in Quebec, Canada
- Magdalene Asylum or Magdalene Laundries, Catholic institutions for fallen women
- Magdalene (comics), a character in Marvel Comics
- Magdallan, later known as Magdalen, an American metal band
- "Magdalene" a song by White Zombie from Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Magdalene (derived from Hebrew "of Magdala") or Magda is a female name used in honor of Mary Magdalene in many countries including Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania, Georgia, Germany, Greece , Poland, Spain, Scandinavia, Slovakia and Slovenia and may refer to:
Usage examples of "magdalene".
A tomb containing the body of Mary Magdalene and the documents that tell the true story of her life.
Their names are here strewn thick as battle soldiers sleeping on the battle-field: Las Colonias, Arayo Salado, Don Carlos Hill, Cerillos, Dolores, San Pambo, Canon Largo, Magdalene Mountains, San Pedro.
Just then Magdalene came in and assembled the scatterec cosies into stacks and started to load up a tea tray.
The Priory of Sion, to this day, still worships Mary Magdalene as the Goddess, the Holy Grail, the Rose, and the Divine Mother.
The youngest of these infamous executors of such an order told me they were searching for 'The Magdalene!
He can just come down here to see me, by the well-worn cooze of Mary Magdalene!
A quick glance in the mirror of my mirror doors, and she flung herself, I could see it all through the cleft, on the marriage bed beneath the blue canopy and wrung her hands with as many fingers as the repentant gold-framed Mary Magdalene in the color print at the head end of the matrimonial fortress.
The idea of the courageous and resourceful Sister Magdalene, so quick with a vibroblade when the need arose, tramping from one employment bureau to another in search of menial work to keep her body fed was an idea at once distasteful to me-'General Housework & Cooking, live in, Thursday evenings & alternate Sundays off.
While Magdalene was not the hotbed of Puritanism that some of its neighbors were, it was still liable to be tarred with the same brush in regards to its loyalty to the established church.
He would work the whole week long and on Saturday go to the synagogue in the clean garments woven for him of linen and silk by his wife Magdalene, with his expensive kerchief over his head, his golden wedding ring on his finger.
There are “Marys” without surnames all over the Gospels, and some of them, I suspect, may refer to the Magdalene, specifically the Mary who, soon before his death, anoints Jesus’ feet with expensive ointment and wipes them with her hair, certainly one of the most tender moments in the Gospels and the primary basis for my rendering of Maggie’s character.
Georges de La Tour's Mary Magdalene has not yet arrived at an ecstasy of repentance, evidently.
However, despite occasional setbacks he succeeded in his aim, which was to obtain sponsorship from both his patron the Earl of Suffolk as well as certain merchants including the Abell family and others involved in the German and Baltic trade for a party of Magdalene scholars to attend the Rudolstadt Colloquy in April and to attempt to procure additional source material from Grantville itself.
You can see that Da Vinci was well aware of how Peter felt about Mary Magdalene.