The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Chief exhorter of the Victoria Char lenes, Mme.
From Time Magazine Archive
A further peculiarity of Scottish Gaelic is that it substitutes lenes or voiceless mediae for the voiced stops, and even l, r, n sounds show a great tendency to give up the voice.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Men become under its subduing dietary influence, "lenti et lenes."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
How the so-called aspirates differ from their corresponding lenes has not yet been determined.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Both pairs were used to express the lenes medially between vowels.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright
