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maudlin

maudlin (plural maudlins)

1. (obsolete, Christianity) The Magdalene; Mary Magdalene. [14th-16th c.]
   • c. 1400, Nicholas Love (trans.), The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ:

     for alle they wor?chipden hir ?ouereynly / as worthy was / but ?pecially Mawdelayne / that wolde neuere departe fro hir.

2. (botany, now historical) Either of two aromatic plants, costmary or sweet yarrow. [from 15th c.]
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 186:

     Common Maudlin have somewhat long and narrow leaves, snipped about the edges.

3. (obsolete) A Magdalene house; a brothel. [17th c.]

maudlin (comparative more maudlin, superlative most maudlin)

1. (obsolete) Tearful, lachrymose. [17th-19th c.]
2. Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness. [from 17th c.]
3. Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying. [from 17th c.]

   On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it — that disgusts me.

   CS Lewis, A Grief Observed, 1961

Definizione dizionario maudlin

	piagnucoloso
	affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner

	sdolcinato
	affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner

sentimentale

Altri significati:

Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying.

Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness

extravagantly or excessively sentimental; self-pitying