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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Magdalene
     a surname derived from Magdala, the place of her nativity, given
     to one of the Marys of the Gospels to distinguish her from the
     other Marys (Matt. 27:56, 61; 28:1, etc.). A mistaken notion has
     prevailed that this Mary was a woman of bad character, that she
     was the woman who is emphatically called "a sinner" (Luke


     7:36-50). (See {MARY}.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Magdalene, a person from Magdala
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  MAGDALENE, n.  An inhabitant of Magdala.  Popularly, a woman found
  out.  This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary
  of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by
  St. Luke.  It has also the official sanction of the governments of
  Great Britain and the United States.  In England the word is
  pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly
  sentimental.  With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for
  Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of
  revisers.
  
  

















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