Hopefully we can have a little fun with this page. I'll try not to make everything a political, I'll save that for my Independent Thoughts page. Well here are this week's installment.
I am sure that most of you will consider this to be useless information, but education, no matter how trite it may seem, is always beneficial.
Besides, if you don't like it, you can always go back to the other page.
The cool word for this week is :Maudlin [adj. MAWD-luhn]
Do you know someone who is easily moved to tears? If so, you can
describe them as maudlin. Anyone who is effusively sentimental is
maudlin. Near synonyms include weepy, syrupy, mawkish, and mushy.
Example: "Anne had a tendency to get maudlin when looking through
family photo albums."
Maudlin is derived from Magdalene, as in Mary Magdalene, the weeping
sinner who washed Jesus' feet with her repentant tears. According to
the Bible she was present at Christ's crucifixion and was the first
to meet with him after he had risen from the dead. In religious
paintings of the Middle Ages she was often shown with red eyes or
crying.
By the 16th century Magdalene had gradually eroded into maudlin which
the English used to describe someone who was in a tearful drunken
state. This second sense of maudlin, describing someone who has had
so much to drink that they are emotionally silly or sad about life in
general, remains in contemporary use.
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