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Definition of Lenten
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or suitable for Lent. "Lenten food"
Definition of Lenten
1. n. Lent.
2. a. Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season.
Definition of Lenten
1. Adjective. Pertaining to Lent; taking place during Lent. ¹
2. Adjective. Appropriate to Lent; meagre, sombre. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lenten
1. meager [adj] - See also: meager
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lenten
Literary usage of Lenten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1874)
"The first volume of lenten Sermons by Segneri was published in 1872, ... The first
volume of the lenten Sermons informs us that Segneri was born at Nettuno, ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1874)
"The first volume of lenten Sermons by Segneri was published in 1872, and the
demand for them appears to have been so great as to call for the publication of ..."
3. Transactions by Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1879)
"In western England, daffodils are still called " lenten lilies," just as in ...
The legal enforcement of lenten fasting long outlived the supremacy of the ..."
4. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"... Lent"), an effigy symbolical of the lenten season, a small rag doll wearing
a black gown and a white head-dress, lenten PREPARATIONS. ..."
5. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"Enforcing lenten Reading hi the Monasteries (An English Benedictine Rule; ...
London, 1901) The better to enforce the rule for lenten reading, ..."
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