# maudlin

Pronunciation: say "MAWD-lin" /ˈmɔːd.lɪn/

## Adjective

1. Foolishly or excessively sentimental, often tearful or self-pitying, especially as a result of drinking too much.
   - Simple: Too emotional in a silly, tearful way, often because of being drunk.
   - _The film's maudlin ending, with its swelling violins, left most critics cold._
   - _He sent her a maudlin letter full of complaints about how unfairly life had treated him._

## Adjective

2. Tearful and given to weeping. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Crying, or quick to cry.

## Noun

3. Mary Magdalene, often called simply the Magdalene. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Mary Magdalene, a woman in the Bible.

## Other meanings

- (noun) The aromatic plant costmary, or the similarly fragrant sweet yarrow.

## Origin

Late Latin Magdalena became Old French Madelaine (the source of Madeleine), which gave Middle English Maudelen, a dialect form of the name Mary Magdalene. She was usually shown weeping in art.

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