Pauline

proper noun

1. 1

   A female given name from Latin.

   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.

   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.

adjective

1. 1

   Of or relating to Paul the Apostle, his writings, his doctrines, and the form of Christianity that arose from them.

noun

1. 1

   A member of a religious order named after Paul the Apostle.

   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, […]

   The Benedictines, Paulines, and other orders of monks apply themſelves after their manner to learning in their ſeveral convents.

   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.

2. 2

   A person who follows or is associated with Paul the Apostle or his doctrines.

   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.

   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.

   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?

3. 3

   One of the Pauline epistles.

   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.

   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.

   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.

4. 4

   A member of St Paul’s School, London.

   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.

   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".

   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.

Forms

plural

Paulines