subs. (colloquial).—A reformed prostitute.
1693. CONGREVE, The Old Batchelor, iv. 6. You don’t love mutton, you MAGDALEN unconverted?
1818. LADY MORGAN, Florence Macarthy, II. ii. 79 [1819]. I will not have my house made a MAGDALEN asylum to a parcel of canting methodistical thieves.
1873. WILKIE COLLINS, The New MAGDALENE [Title].
1883. A. TROLLOPE, Autobiography, p. 239. Very little of the MAGDALENE about her—because though there may be many MAGDALENES they are not often found.
