magdalen
3
9.9
- noun
- /ˈmæɡdələn/
- Offensive
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prostituta arrepentida
- Mary Magdalen keeps herself in check in order to observe, to notice the details, the particularity that makes this corpse the very one of the beloved.
- Mary Magdalen
Examples
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I come from a land of Magdalen laundries and cover-ups by supposed moral authorities of child abusers.
Blog text (19) -
In the final stanza of the poem, the Magdalen's way of grieving is contrasted to Mother Mary's.
Academic text (2017) -
Not the same ones they had when the Magdalen girls were there.
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I asked Magdalen, one of the girls with whom I had become friendly.
Fiction book (1991) -
Rescue of fallen women, magdalen asylum.
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"Returning to the orchard alone, I met Magdalen, hair coming loose under her kerchief and wide-eyed with worry."
Fiction book (1991) -
The Magdalen's inspection requires "bravery," and her affective response is a "dumb/Wonder" rather than despair (ll. 54, 56-57).
Academic text (2017) -
Moreover, the Magdalen is positioned in the foreground, lifting Christ's forearm so that his hand hangs over the balustrade, as if breaking the plane of the painting.
Academic text (2017) -
The woman's story of redemption made her a modern-day magdalen in the eyes of many.
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After her years in the streets, she was proud to be recognized as a magdalen who had turned her life around.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Magdalen comes from the name Mary Magdalene, a woman in the Bible who was long pictured as a sinner who later changed her life. Her last name originally meant 'from Magdala', a town, and because of her story a magdalen came to mean a woman who had been a prostitute and has reformed.