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Pauline
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English
Etymology 1
From en fr Pauline, in turn from en la Paulīna; in regular use since the 19th century. en Paul -ine<pos:feminine suffix>.
Pronunciation
en
pô'lēn', en /ˈpɔːˌliːn/
en /pɔˈlin/ GA
en /pɑˈlin/ cot-caught,US,dialects of Canada
en /pɒˈlin/ Canada,dialects of the US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Pauline (girl).wav Southern England
Proper noun
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en female Latin.
en 1987 Betty Keller Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson 19 Formac Publ. Co. 1989 088780151X The youngest child of George and Emily Johnson was named Emily after her mother, and Pauline in honor of the only sibling of Emperor Napoleon of France, whose life was the object of George Johnson's consuming interest.
28 March 2009 Sarah Knapton Happiness is all in a name, just ask Judy and Joshua https://web.archive.org/web/20110310115416/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5063722/Happiness-is-all-in-a-name-just-ask-Judy-and-Joshua.html Paulines are thought to be the most miserable because the name conjures up images of long-suffering launderess Pauline Fowler from EastEnders while Judy is more likely to be associated with Judy Dench or Judy Finnegan.
Related terms
en Paula Paulina Paul<qq:male equivalent>
Translations
female given name
Albanian: sq Palina f, sq Paulina f, sq Pavlina f
Bulgarian: bg Павли́на f, bg Поли́на f
Czech: cs Pavlína f
Danish: da Pauline c
Finnish: fi Pauliina
French: fr Pauline f
German: de Pauline f
Greek: el Παυλίνα f, el Πωλίνα f
Greenlandic: kl Paaliit
Macedonian: mk Павли́на f
Polish: pl Paulina f
Portuguese: pt Paulina f, pt Pauline f
Russian: ru Поли́на f, ru Павли́на f
Spanish: es Paulina f
Swedish: sv Paulina c
Ukrainian: uk Павлі́на f, uk Павли́на f, uk Полі́на f
Etymology 2
en enm Paulyn, from en la Paulīnus.n. and adj. 1 2126368300 en Paul -ine<pos:adjectival suffix><id:female>.
Pronunciation
pô'līn', en /ˈpɔːˌlaɪn/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Pauline (Paul).wav Southern England
en /ˈpɔˌlaɪn/ /ˈpɔˌlin/ GA,non-cot-caught
en /ˈpɑˌlaɪn/ /ˈpɑˌlin/ GA,Canada,cot-caught
en ɔːlaɪn 2
Adjective
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en Christianity en Christianity Of or relating to Paul the Apostle, his writings, his doctrines, and the form of Christianity that arose from them.
en Paulian
Coordinate terms
en Johannine Lukan Markan Matthean Petrine
Derived terms
en Pauline conversion w:Pauline Fathers<qq:religious order> Pauline privilege Paulinism Paulinist Paulinize
Related terms
en Paulism Paulist
Translations
of or relating to Paul the Apostle and his doctrines
Catalan: ca paulí
German: de paulinisch
Hungarian: hu páli
Italian: it paolino
Polish: pl Pawłowy
Portuguese: pt paulino
Swedish: sv paulinsk
Noun
en Christianity A member of a religious order named after Paul the Apostle.
The Image of Ipocrysy II 440–441 441 With sectes many mo, / An hundreth in a throo / I thinke to name by roo, / As they come to my mynde, / Whom, thoughe they be vnkind, / The lay mens labor finde; / For some be Benedictes Some be Paulines, / Some be Antonynes, / Some be Bernardines, /Some be Celestines,
en 1765 Daniel Fenning; Joseph Collyer; et al. Of the Religion and Learning of the Hungarians A New System of Geography: or, A General Description of the World. II London Printed for S. Crowder, at the Looking-Glass, in Pater-noster-Row; and sold by Mr. Jackson,at Oxford; Mr. Merril, at Cambridge; Mess. Smith, in Dublin; and all other Booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland. book III (Of Europe in General), chapter VIII (Of Hungary,Including Hungary Proper, Transylvania, Sclavonia, Croatia, and Dalmatia.) 127 https://archive.org/details/10807411bsb/page/127/mode/1up 2 520580698 The Benedictines, Paulines, and other orders of monks apply themſelves after their manner to learning in their ſeveral convents.
21 September 1979 Ben A. Franklin Cover‐Up Alleged in Monastic Scandal https://web.archive.org/web/20200416201824/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/21/archives/coverup-alleged-in-monastic-scandal-criticism-of-cardinal.html Like the Pope and the Cardinal, the Paulines, formally called the Order of St. Paul, the First Hermit, are of Polish heritage. The newspaper articles say that the Paulines have avoided bankruptcy and held off possible criminal prosecution only through a $5 million “bailout” by Cardinal Krol and a cover‐up by Catholic officials that reached all the way to the Pope.
en Christianity A person who follows or is associated with Paul the Apostle or his doctrines.
en Paulian
en 1924 James Rendel Harris All Things Are Yours As Pants the Hart and Other Devotional Addresses London Hodder and Stoughton 108 https://archive.org/details/aspantshartother0000harr/page/108/mode/1up 5161162 Between Paul and Apollos there had arisen distinct rivalry. When he wrote this epistle to Corinth, quite a chasm existed already between the Paulines and the Apollonians, with something of a rift between Apollos and himself.
en 1994 w:Michael Goulder The Basic Tension St. Paul versus St. Peter: A Tale of Two Missions Louisville, Ky. w:Westminster John Knox Press 1995 6 https://archive.org/details/stpaulversusstpe0000goul/page/6/mode/1up 0-664-25561-2 It is probable that both Paul and Ignatius of Antioch died in partial consequence of the hatred of Jewish Christians (that is, those loyal to Peter and James); and we shall see that the Paulines, especially St John the Evangelist, hated the Jewish Christians with an equal ferocity.
en 6 July 2003 John Preston Television: The God factor w:The Sunday Telegraph final 2,195 London Telegraph Group 9 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/753217128/ 1 0307-269X 12283056 Paul, declared the presenter Jonathan Edwards, is “one of my heroes. The passion of his beliefs shone out like the noonday sun.” Yet for Paulines and non-Paulines alike, the crucial question remains: did Paul actually see Jesus, as he claimed to have done?
en Christianity chiefly in the plural One of the Pauline epistles.
en 1963 Nigel Turner Simple Particles A Grammar of New Testament Greek III (Syntax) Edinburgh T. & T. Clark chapter 25 (Co-ordinating Particles) 331 https://archive.org/details/grammarofnewtest0000moul/page/331/mode/1up 959351024 One of the most characteristic departures from class. style is the rarity of the correlation of grc μέν and grc δέ in Biblical Greek; it occurs with any frequency only in some Paulines, Ac and Heb.
en 1966 Gustav Herdan The Pauline Epistles The Advanced Theory of Language as Choice and Chance de:Kommunikation und Kybernetik in Einzeldarstellungen 4 New York, N.Y. Springer-Verlag part III (Language as Chance II – Optimal Systems of Language Structure), section B (Combinatories on the Lexicon Level), chapter 13 (The Generalised Random Partitioning Function and Stylostatistics) 220 https://archive.org/details/advancedtheoryof0004gust/page/220/mode/1up 65-26057 1143095 In this way, namely by comparing each Pauline with some others, he tries to arrive at conclusions as to what could be ‘normally’ expected and how far such expectation is exceeded in one or the other direction. But clearly every such estimation depends upon the authenticity of the particular Paulines which are used as standards for the comparison.
en 1999 w:Alvar Ellegård Ephesians Jesus – One Hundred Years Before Christ: A Study in Creative Mythology London Century part I (Recovering First-Century Christianity), chapter 7 (Colossians and Ephesians) 154 https://archive.org/details/jesusonehundredy0000elle/page/154/mode/1up 0 7126 7956 1 The Pauline character is further enhanced by the numerous verbal similarities with passages in the genuine Paulines. Scholars have found echoes of practically all Paulines in Ephesians.
A member of St Paul’s School, London.
13 June 2001 w:Nick Hopkins Top of the grass https://web.archive.org/web/20140509210843/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/jun/13/schools.uk I wasn't unusually unfashionable or unworldly by St Paul's standards. But the standards weren't high. Put it like this: most Paulines I knew would have assumed a Camberwell carrot was vegetable grown in south London.
19 July 2003 w:Rachel Johnson Sharing a level playing field https://web.archive.org/web/20260417152455/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/4188626/Sharing-a-level-playing-field.html Before the Greenhouse project used the magic medium of contact sports to bring the boys together, the Paulines name for local boys from comprehensives in Barnes was "the Garys".
26 February 2023 Josh Glancy I went back to Oxford to see if the Bullingdon days are over https://web.archive.org/web/20250914012245/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/oxford-university-bullingdon-club-state-private-school-students-2023-73j5hr0bk Numbers of old Etonians, Harrovians, Wykehamists and Paulines are dropping fast. These universities are starting to resemble the country at large, not just a cross-section of quadrangular toffs.
References
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Danish
Proper noun
da proper noun
da female la:Paulīna
French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
fr female la:Paulīna
Anagrams
fr paulien
German
Pronunciation
de De-Pauline.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
de proper noun
de female Paulina