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English
Etymology
From Old English lenten, lencten.
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Adjective
Lenten (comparative more Lenten, superlative most Lenten)
- Pertaining to Lent; taking place during Lent.
1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:And perhaps it was the same politick drift that the Divell whipt St. Jerom in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero […] .
- 1896, 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.
- Appropriate to Lent; meagre, sombre.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :To thinke, my Lord, if you delight not in Man, what Lenton entertainment the Players shall receiue from you […] .
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