Pauline

Proper noun

Pauline (plural Paulines)

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.1987, Betty Keller, Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson, Formac Publ. Co., published 1989, →ISBN, page 19
   • 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.2009 March 28, Sarah Knapton, “Happiness is all in a name, just ask Judy and Joshua”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2011

Adjective

IPA/ˈpɔːˌlaɪn/US/ˈpɔˌlaɪn/

Pauline (not comparable)

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

   Synonyms:

   Paulian

Noun

IPA/ˈpɔːˌlaɪn/US/ˈpɔˌlaɪn/

Pauline (plural Paulines)

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, […]a. 1550, “[Poems Attributed to [John] Skelton.] The Image of Ipocrysy.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume II, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843...
   • The Benedictines, Paulines, and other orders of monks apply themſelves after their manner to learning in their ſeveral convents.1765, D[aniel] Fenning, J[oseph] Collyer, et al., “Of the Religion and Learning of the Hungarians”, in A New System of Geography: or, A General Description of the World. […], volume II, London: […]...
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.1924, J[ames] Rendel Harris, “All Things Are Yours”, in As Pants the Hart and Other Devotional Addresses, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 108
   • 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.1994, Michael Goulder, “The Basic Tension”, in St. Paul versus St. Peter: A Tale of Two Missions, Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 6

   Synonyms:

   Paulian

3. (in plural) 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.1963, Nigel Turner, “Simple Particles”, in A Grammar of New Testament Greek, volume III (Syntax), Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, →OCLC, chapter 25 (Co-ordinating Particles), page 331
   • 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...1966, Gustav Herdan, “The Pauline Epistles”, in The Advanced Theory of Language as Choice and Chance (Kommunikation und Kybernetik in Einzeldarstellungen; 4), New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, →LCCN...
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.2001 June 13, Nick Hopkins, “Top of the grass”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 May 2014
   • 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".2003 July 19, Rachel Johnson, “Sharing a level playing field”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2026