lenten
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
/ˈlɛntən/
(UK)
Definition of lenten
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Pertaining to Lent; taking place during Lent.
“And perhaps it was the same politick drift that the Divell whipt St. Jerom in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero […].”
“And there's the Lenten lily / That has not long to stay / And dies on Easter day.”
“Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, is the last day to feast on rich, fatty foods before the 40-day Lenten season starts the next day, on Ash Wednesday.”
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adj
-
Pertaining to Lent; taking place during Lent.
“And perhaps it was the same politick drift that the Divell whipt St. Jerom in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero […].”
“And there's the Lenten lily / That has not long to stay / And dies on Easter day.”
“Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, is the last day to feast on rich, fatty foods before the 40-day Lenten season starts the next day, on Ash Wednesday.”
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Appropriate to Lent; meagre, sombre.
“To thinke, my Lord, if you delight not in Man, what Lenton entertainment the Players shall receiue from you […].”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Old English lenten, lencten, equivalent to Lent + -en.
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