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Mary Magdalene
a. Originally: a repentant (female) sinner; esp. a reformed prostitute. Later: a prostitute. Occasionally more fully Mary Magdalene.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > [noun] > one who is reformed > reformed prostitute
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1563 Latimer's Serm. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1303/2 I doute not but we be all Magdelens, in fallyng into sinne..but we bee not agayne Magdelens in knowing our selues and in rysing from sinne.
a1631 J. Donne Hymn to Saints in Poems (1633) 163 Wish him a David, her a Magdalen.
a1631 J. Donne Relique in Poems (1633) 289 Thou shalt be a Mary Magdalen, and I A something else thereby.
1697 J. Dennis Plot & no Plot Epil. 80 I your young, buxom Magdalen's despise, She Saints, that have sev'n Devils in their eyes.
1737 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 3) II Magdalens, an order of nuns, or rather worn out and penitent courtesans at Rome, upon whom a revenue was settled by Pope Clement VIII.
1758 Plan for establishing Magdalen-Charity 36 The General Committee shall empower three of their number to visit the wards, to enquire into the behavior of the Magdalens [etc.].
a1779 D. Garrick in R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough (1781) Prol. Those writers well and wisely use their pens, Who turn our Wantons into Magdalens.
1823 W. Scott Peveril IV. xiii. 309 [She] stood..with an humble air, as different from that which she wore in the harem of the Duke of Buckingham, as that of a Magdalen from a Judith.
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. i. iii. 58 Sour old maids, and maundering Magdalens.
a1882 A. Trollope Autobiogr. (1883) II. xviii. 180 A poor abased creature..with very little of the Magdalene about her—because though there may be Magdalenes they are not often found.
1932 J. M. S. Tompkins Pop. Novel in Eng. 1770–1800 iv. 153 The Magdalens of gentle blood..descend..to the family vault. It is a clear case of noblesse oblige.
1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) iv. 87 I have not been able to find one well-authenticated case of a Magdalen of Paris who has..settled down to habits of legitimate work.
1984 J. Meades Filthy Eng. 9 Aniseed is inseparably linked in my mind to the bodies of fallen women. It is the madeleine that evokes a Magdalene.
2012 Guardian (Nexis) 26 May The brothel in Ste-Madeleine..is filled with workaday Magdalenes who long for their ugly lives to be made pretty.
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