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Unabated vs Maudlin - What's the difference?

unabated | maudlin |

As adjectives the difference between unabated and maudlin

is that unabated is continuing at full strength or intensity while maudlin is affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.

As a noun maudlin is

(obsolete|christianity) the magdalene; (mary magdalene).

unabated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • continuing at full strength or intensity
  • maudlin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, Christianity) The Magdalene; (Mary Magdalene).
  • * c. 1400 , (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.
  • * 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 186:
  • Common Maudlin have somewhat long and narrow leaves, snipped about the edges.
  • (obsolete) A Magdalene house; a brothel.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.
  • *around 1900 , O. Henry,
  • He was a drunkard, and had not known it. What he had fondly imagined was a pleasant exhilaration had been maudlin intoxication.
  • Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying.
  • *1961 ,
  • ''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.
  • (obsolete) Tearful, lachrymose.
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