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People who have more than one word coined after them
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<a href="/words/ciceronian.html">ciceronian</a><br>
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<a href="/words/maudlin.html">maudlin</a><br>
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<a href="/words/hermetic.html">hermetic</a><br>
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<img src="/words/images/maudlin.jpg" height="219" width="180" alt="Mary Magdalene by Titian" style="display:block; margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto; padding:0px;border:solid;border-width:1px;border-color:#999999;">
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Mary Magdalene by Titian
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maudlin
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<div style="font-family:Verdana; color:#AAAAAA; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px;">PRONUNCIATION:</div>
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(MAWD-lin)
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<a href="/words/maudlin.mp3"><img src="/words/images/sound-icon.png" align="middle" width="32" height="24" border="0" alt=""></a>
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<div style="font-family:Verdana; color:#AAAAAA; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px;">MEANING:</div>
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<i>adjective:</i>
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Overly sentimental.
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<div style="font-family:Verdana; color:#AAAAAA; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px;">ETYMOLOGY:</div>
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After Mary Magdalene, a Biblical character who was a follower of Jesus. In
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medieval art she was depicted as a penitent weeping for her sins (she washed
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the feet of Jesus with her tears) and her name became synonymous with tearful
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sentimentality.<br>
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The name Magdalene means "of Magdala" in Greek and is derived after a town
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on the Sea of Galilee. The name Magdala, in turn, means tower in Aramaic.
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So here we have a word coined after a person, who was named after a place,
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which was named after a thing.<br>
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In an allusion to her earlier life, Mary
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Magdalene's name has sprouted another eponym, magdalene, meaning a reformed
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prostitute.
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"In this maudlin melodrama, all that was missing were the violins."<br>
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Jeannette Layne-Clark; Minister on Stage; Daily Nation (Barbados);
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Mar 20, 2005.
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See more usage examples of <a href="https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/maudlin">maudlin</a> in Vocabulary.com's <a href="https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary">dictionary</a>.
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A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains. -Hippolyte Taine, critic and historian (1828-1893)
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