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lent

Definition

  • noun: a period of 40 days before Easter during which many Christians do not eat certain foods or do certain pleasurable activities as a way of remembering the suffering of Jesus Christ
  • noun: the 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter observed by the Roman Catholic, Eastern, and some Protestant churches as a period of penitence and fasting
  • past tense and past participle of 'lend'
  • synonyms: slow, mild, gentle

Examples

  • I 'lent' our ladder to the neighbors.

  • the 'Lenten' season

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Sinful Macduff! They were all struck for thee. Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief convert to anger. Blunt not the heart, enrage it. Gracious England hath lent us ten thousand men. Our power is ready. Our lack is nothing but our leave. Front to front you bring thou (..)
    2015 Macbeth