pauline · name — A female given name from Latin.
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pauline is pronounced /ˈpɔːˌliːn/.
Etymology
From French Pauline, in turn from Latin Paulīna; in regular use since the 19th century. By surface analysis, Paul + -ine (feminine suffix).
name
- A female given name from Latin.
adj
- Of or relating to Paul the Apostle, his writings, his doctrines, and the form of Christianity that arose from them.
noun
- A member of a religious order named after Paul the Apostle.
- A person who follows or is associated with Paul the Apostle or his doctrines.
- One of the Pauline epistles.e.g.“One of the most characteristic departures from class. style is the rarity of the correlation of μέν and δέ in Biblical Greek; it occurs with any frequency only in some Paulines, Ac and Heb.” — 1963, Nigel Turner, “Simple Particles”, in A Grammar of New Testament Greek, volume III (Syntax), Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, →OCLC, chapter 25 (Co-ordinating Particles), page 331:
- A member of St Paul’s School, London.
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