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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[From Mary

Magdalene

, traditionally reported to have been the repentant sinner forgiven by Christ. See

Luke

vii. 36.]

A reformed prostitute.

Magdalen

A female given name; a variant of Magdalene
- 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel
  "We two," she said, "will seek the groves / Where the lady Mary is, / With her five handmaidens, whose names / Are five sweet symphonies, / Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, / Margaret and Rosalys.
Magdalen College (a college of Oxford University)