fallen
- adjective
- /ˈfɔlən/
- Slur
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- After her scandal, she felt like a fallen woman, shunned by society and alone.
Like he says, you know, the fantasies of fallen man, right?
- Like he says, you know, the fantasies of fallen man, right?
- And so he took out a couple and he showed them to me and he had a whole row of angels and a whole row of like fallen angels type thing.
Examples
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This is now the Emperor who praises a counselor, a counselor who has fallen into disgrace.
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And so he took out a couple and he showed them to me and he had a whole row of angels and a whole row of like fallen angels type thing.
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Like he says, you know, the fantasies of fallen man, right?
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I've tried to pretend time is on our side, falling, fallen before I go again.
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Now when does it go from, oh, my God, she's fallen over to she's had a fool?
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Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell, Though all things foul would wear the Browns of grace, Yet grace must still look so.
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The community took pity on the fallen woman who had struggled to regain her dignity.
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In the eyes of the public, she was seen as a fallen woman after the incident became known.
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Compounds
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Etymology
Fallen for a woman uses the same root fall, but in a moral sense meaning 'to go down' from a higher place, as in 'to fall from grace'. That's why a 'fallen' woman was seen as having 'lost honor' or her good social position.