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Webster 1913 Edition


Lenten

Lent′en

(lĕnt′’n)
,
Noun.
Lent.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.

Lent′en

,
Adj.
[From OE.
lenten
lent. See
Lent
,
Noun.
]
1.
Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent;
as, the
Lenten
season
.
She quenched her fury at the flood,
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.
Pertaining to lent; used in lent; sparing; as a lenten entertainment; a lenten salad.

Definition 2024


Lenten

Lenten

English

Adjective

Lenten (comparative more Lenten, superlative most Lenten)

  1. 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 [...].
  2. 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.

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