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lent
1[ lent ]
Lent
2[ lent ]
noun
- (in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
-lent
3- a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, variant of -ulent:
pestilent.
lent
1/ lɛnt /
Lent
2/ lɛnt /
noun
- Christianity the period of forty weekdays lasting from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, observed as a time of penance and fasting commemorating Jesus' fasting in the wilderness
- modifier falling within or associated with the season before Easter
Lent observance
- plural (at Cambridge University) Lent term boat races
Lent
- In Christianity , a time of fasting and repentance in the spring, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending several weeks later on Easter .
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Other Words From
- un·lent adjective
- well-lent adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lent1
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Origin of lent1
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Example Sentences
Like Lent, the season of Advent was a period of reflection and fasting, and items such as dairy and sugar were forbidden.
Shortly thereafter, T.I. lent his first post-incarceration verse to a remix of “Magic.”
In return we lent the hospitable Post our halftones, and they adorned its first city edition next morning.
There seemed a sense that his blackness alone lent him a protean kind of wisdom, power, promise—hope, we might recall.
Oleksiy Kosarev, leader of a local anti-corruption organization, lent some credence to this conception.
Anselme, thus enjoined, lent an unwonted alacrity to his movements, waddling grotesquely like a hastening waterfowl.
The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole's gentle caress.
This stubborn resistance lent all the more lustre to the piety of our benignant Rulers.
This misfortune gave another opportunity to his detractors, and again the Emperor lent his authority to their false accusations.
He surveyed his man more closely; but the inspection lent no colour to his suspicions.
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