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Definition of Lent

Lent

of Lend

imp. & p. p. of Lend.

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.

Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.

See Lento.

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Lent Quotations

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
Christian Nestell Bovee

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped-and I haven't had a cigarette since.
Ethel Merman

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.
Judy Holliday

The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains.
Dudley North

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
Les Claypool

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.
Frank Butler

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Lent Translations

lent in German is geliehen, lieh, verliehen
lent in Italian is prestai
Lent in Norwegian is faste

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