LENT

n. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

imp. & p. p. of Lend.

2.
n.

A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.

3.
a.

Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats. [Obs.] B.Jonson.

4.
a.

See Lento.

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