The emoji in today’s picture vividly illustrates MAUDLIN’s meaning as tearful and excessively sentimental. For example, fans of the Harry Potter books and movies will recall that Moaning Myrtle lives up to her name by crying incessantly and thus being MAUDLIN. And the movie Avengers: Endgame contains a particularly MAUDLIN scene in with a tearful and inconsolable Thor retreats to New Asgard where he is wracked with guilt over his failure to stop Thanos.
Students on Reddit reported that MAUDLIN appeared on various versions of the March-April 2026 School Days SAT. Unfortunately, I do know if MAUDLIN was a correct or an incorrect answer.
However, I do know MAUDLIN’S interesting etymology or history. Mary Magdalene played an important and recurring role in the Gospel accounts of Christ’s life and death. According to the Gospels, she stood at the foot of the Cross, saw Christ laid in the tomb, and was the first recorded witness of the Resurrection. During the 15th century, artists frequently portrayed Mary Magdalene weeping as Christ was being taken down from the Cross. The word MAUDLIN is an alteration of the name Magdalene.
MAUDLIN – tearful; excessively sentimental