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Webster 1913 Edition
Lenten
Lent′en
(lĕnt′’n)
, Noun.
Lent.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
1.
Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent;
as, the
. Lenten
seasonShe quenched her fury at the flood,
And with a
And with a
Lenten
salad cooled her blood. Dryden.
2.
Spare; meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant or showy.
“Lenten entertainment.” “ Lenten answer.” Shak.
“ Lenten suit.” Beau. & Fl.
Lenten color
, black or violet.
F. G. Lee.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lenten
LENT'EN
,Adj.
Definition 2025
Lenten
Lenten
English
Adjective
Lenten (comparative more Lenten, superlative most Lenten)
- Pertaining to Lent; taking place during Lent.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- And perhaps it was the same politick drift that the Divell whipt St. Jerom in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero [...].
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- Appropriate to Lent; meagre, sombre.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, II.2:
- To thinke, my Lord, if you delight not in Man, what Lenton entertainment the Players shall receiue from you [...].
- A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXIX, line 8-10:
- And there's the Lenten lily / That has not long to stay / And dies on Easter day.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, II.2:
Translations
pertaining to Lent
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