maudlin

kyynelehtivä puhekieltä The Magdalene; (w). (defdate)
c. 1400, (w) (trans.), The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ:

for alle they worſchipden hir ſouereynly / as worthy was / but ſpecially Mawdelayne / that wolde neuere departe fro hir.

Common Maudlin have somewhat long and narrow leaves, snipped about the edges.

He was a drunkard, and had not known it. What he had fondly imagined was a pleasant exhilaration had been maudlin intoxication.

''On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it — that disgusts me.