Marian

A variant of Marion, a medieval derivation of Mary, often also interpreted as a contraction of Mary and Ann, or as a variant of Mariana.

Marian

1. A female given name from Hebrew.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
     : Act III, Scene III:

     There's no more faith in thee than in a steward prune, nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox; and for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the deputy's wife of the ward to thee.

• Marianne

From Mary +‎ -an.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛəɹiən/

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• (General American) enPR: mârʹēən
  • (without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈme(ə)ɹiən/
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɹiən/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiən

Marian (comparative more Marian, superlative most Marian)

1. (Christianity) Of or relating to the Virgin Mary.

   a Marian apparition

   Marian devotions

   • 1867, E. Pusey, “Dr. Pusey on Ecclesiastical Unity”, in The Dublin Review, volume 8, page 84:

     When, e.g., Dr. Pusey and others tell him, on à priori grounds, that his constant and unintermitting worship of Mary lessens his simple trust in Jesus, such a statement can only elicit from him amazement and pity; because he knows, as a matter most strictly within his own personal cognisance, that Marian devotion is among his most efficacious helps for growing in the knowledge and the love of God.

   • 2003, Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation: A History, Penguin, →ISBN, page 18:

     Like the Mass, the cult of the saints and their shrines was a potent meeting of spiritual and physical: a human being who could be guaranteed as having entered heaven had kept a particularly intense relationship with a place on earth and thus rendered it sacred: sometimes through a relic, perhaps the saint's skeleton or a possession, or simply through association with a holy well or past miracle. A special case was Mary, the Mother of God, for whom there could be no bodily relics, since quite early on, both eastern and western Churches had decided that she had entered heaven in a specially privileged way, with a body that had not experienced the normal pains of death. Characteristically, the West had made sure that this devotional concept was turned into a precise doctrine, that of Mary's bodily Assumption. So although Marian shrines were common throughout Europe, particularly in regions which had bred few native saints, they centred not on a bodily relic (apart from various items of clothing and a remarkably generous number of examples of mother's milk), but instead on a representation of the Virgin's body in the form of a statue. In two famous cases, at Walsingham in England and Loreto in Italy, they went further in exhibiting a replica or transmigrated reconstruction of the Holy House in which the Christ-child had grown up in Nazareth; both these Marian shrines enjoyed an unprecedented boom in the fifteenth century, perhaps reflecting a new interest in seeing family life in the context of the life of the Church.

2. Of or relating to Mary I of England.

   Coordinate terms: Elizabethan, Carolinian, Caroline, Carolean, Henrician, Jacobean, Georgian, Edwardian, Victorian

   • 1651, Iohn Cooke, Monarchy No Creature of Gods Making, &c. Wherein Is Proved by Scripture and Reason, That Monarchicall Government is Against the Minde of God. […], Waterford: […] Peter de Pienne, page 55:

     I judge the meaning of it to be, that men who raigne like Lions, Kings and great ones who under the face of men carry the hearts of Tygers; and their Children who equall them in, and inherit their fathers crueltie; and their wives who ſurpaſſe them in Inſolence, and Marian perſecntions;^[sic] muſt all receive ſuch puniſhments as their ſins deſerve, they end their lives tragically, […]

   • 1968, William P. Haugaard, “[The Convocation men of 1563] The Marian bishops”, in Elizabeth and the English Reformation: The Struggle for a Stable Settlement of Religion, Cambridge: At the University Press, page 36:

     The Marian bishops had undoubtedly anticipated trouble when the daughter of Anne Boleyn ascended the throne.

   • 2022, Frederick E. Smith, “[Agents of the Marian Counter-Reformation] The ‘Protestant Problem’”, in Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England: Mobility, Exile, and Counter-Reformation, 1530—1580, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section III (Repatriation), page 191:

     Far from being open to dialogue with those of opposing beliefs, the Marian regime effectively shut down interconfessional debate through an uncompromising campaign against Protestants in print, pulpit and, above all, through a brutal programme of persecution.

3. Of or relating to Mary, Queen of Scots.

Marian (plural Marians)

1. (historical) One of the Scots who remained loyal to Mary, Queen of Scots, in the disputes following her deposition.

Marian (comparative more Marian, superlative most Marian)

1. Of or relating to Gaius Marius, Ancient Roman general and statesman.

   Marian reform

From Mari +‎ -an.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːɹiən/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɹiən

Marian (comparative more Marian, superlative most Marian)

1. Of or relating to the Mari people.

   the famous Marian diviner, Asqudum

• Ramani, amirna, Armani, Marina, airman, Ariman, marina, amiRNA, Ramian

Marian m

1. alternative form of Marià

• IPA^(key): [ˈmarɪjan]

Marian

1. genitive of Mariany

Marian

1. genitive singular of Maria

• Marina, maarin, marain, marina, raamin, ramina, rimana

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʁjɑ̃/

Marian m

1. a male given name

Borrowed from Latin Marianus, derivative of Marius.

Marian

1. a male given name

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.riː.ɑn/

Marīan

1. accusative/genitive/dative singular of Marīa

Learned borrowing from Latin Marianus, derivative of Marius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.rjan/

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• Rhymes: -arjan
• Syllabification: Ma‧rian

Marian m pers

1. a male given name

• Marian in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Мариꙗнъ (Marijanŭ), from Latin Marianus.

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Marian m

1. a male given name
2. a surname
3. a village in Hîrtop, Transnistria, Moldova