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MARIAN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or venerating the Virgin Mary
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Mary (the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics)
Derivation:
Mary (the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics)
Context examples:
Poor as he was, and determined to rise as he was, he nevertheless hired one servant to take the heavy work off of Marian's hands.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Marian and her husband would never know, and neither himself nor they nor the world would lose if the pretty, harmless poem ever were published.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Marian had called on Martin in his room a short time before to announce her engagement, during which visit she had playfully inspected Martin's palm and told his fortune.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"Why, Marian," he chided, "you talk as though you were ashamed of your relatives, or of your brother at any rate."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But, Marian, why should your Hermann be jealous of my writing poetry about my own sister?
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His sister Marian had been keeping company with an industrious young mechanic, of German extraction, who, after thoroughly learning the trade, had set up for himself in a bicycle-repair shop.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This bad impression was further heightened by Martin's reading aloud the half-dozen stanzas of verse with which he had commemorated Marian's previous visit.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Having read of his sailing in the morning papers, Bernard Higginbotham, Gertrude, and all the family came to say good-by, as did Hermann von Schmidt and Marian.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Marian repeated her question.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He spent long hours in the Oakland and Berkeley libraries, and made out application blanks for membership for himself, his sisters Gertrude and Marian, and Jim, the latter's consent being obtained at the expense of several glasses of beer.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
