About The Word Lenten
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Lenten
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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. |
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