Lent
/lɛnt/ noun C2- A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures. · Hezekiah gave up vaping for Lent.
- The 40 days preceding Lazarus Saturday, the Saturday preceding Holy Week.
- The 46 days preceding Easter, reckoned as 40 days by excluding Sundays.
- vassa, period of the Buddhist lent during the rainy season
Plural Lents
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Then, by the gleam of a lamp, similar to that which lighted the columbarium, Albert was to be seen wrapped up in a cloak which one of the bandits had lent him, lying in a corner in profound slumber.
I lent you money, and you returned it; that’s like good neighbors, and we are quits.”
He lent me a book; but I don’t mind saying that it was a bit above my head, though I had a good Aberdeen upbringing.
I got that name out of the book Diana lent me.
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