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Lenten Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Lenten? [adj] of or relating to or suitable for Lent; "lenten food" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Lenten: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Lenten: abstemious \| abstinent \| Apostolic \| ascetic \| austere \| celibate \| chaste \| continent \| dwarfed \| dwarfish \| Encratic \| exiguous \| fasting \| frugal \| fruitarian \| impoverished \| jejune \| lean \| limited \| meager \| mean \| miserly \| narrow \| nephalistic \| niggardly \| on the wagon \| paltry \| parsimonious \| poor \| puny \| Pythagorean \| quadragesimal \| Rechabite \| scant \| scanty \| scrawny \| scrimp \| scrimpy \| sexually abstinent \| Shaker \| skimp \| skimpy \| slender \| slight \| slim \| small \| spare \| sparing \| Spartan \| starvation \| stingy \| stinted \| Stoic \| straitened \| stunted \| subsistence \| sworn off \| teetotal \| thin \| uneating \| unfed \| unnourishing \| unnutritious \| vegetarian \| watered \| watery See Also \| Lenten In Webster's Dictionary \Lent"en\ (l[e^]nt"'n), n. Lent. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. \Lent"en\, a. [From OE. lenten lent. See {Lent}, n. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season. She quenched her fury at the flood, And with a Lenten salad cooled her blood. --Dryden. 2. Spare; meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant or showy. ``Lenten entertainment.'' `` Lenten answer.'' --Shak. `` Lenten suit.'' --Beau. & Fl. {Lenten color}, black or violet. --F. G. Lee.

Lenten Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lenten?

[adj] of or relating to or suitable for Lent; "lenten food"

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Lenten In Webster's Dictionary

\Lent"en\ (l[e^]nt"'n), n.
Lent. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.


\Lent"en\, a. [From OE. lenten lent. See {Lent}, n. ]
1. Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or
   suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season.

         She quenched her fury at the flood, And with a
         Lenten salad cooled her blood.        --Dryden.

2. Spare; meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant
   or showy. ``Lenten entertainment.'' `` Lenten answer.''
   --Shak. `` Lenten suit.'' --Beau. & Fl.

{Lenten color}, black or violet. --F. G. Lee.

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