The Only Use
maudlin
in
Great Expectations
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- At once ferocious and maudlin, I was made to murder my uncle with no extenuating circumstances whatever; Millwood put me down in argument, on every occasion; it became sheer monomania in my master's daughter to care a button for me; and all I can say for my gasping and procrastinating conduct on the fatal morning, is, that it was worthy of the general feebleness of my character.†
p. 124.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(maudlin) excessively self-pitying, sad, or sentimental -- especially when drunk
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)