Lenten
or lent·en
of, relating to, or suitable for Lent.
suggesting Lent, as in austerity, frugality, or rigorousness; meager.
Origin of Lenten
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How to use Lenten in a sentence
One of the first tracts wholly devoted to tobacco is entitled Nash's "Lenten Stuffe."
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Even in the present year-1913-the Lenten pastoral of one of the bishops goes back to the same old subject.
Is Ulster Right? | AnonymousAfter the Christmas holidays the city will be gay until the Lenten season.
Patchwork | Anna Balmer MyersIt is the method by which one fills a Lenten mitebox—it is disciplinary, that is, it is meant to hurt a little, and it does.
The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping | Elizabeth Hale GilmanThe Lenten, Easter, and Christmas songs are the greatest artistic inheritance handed down to us from the past.
More Tales by Polish Authors | Various
British Dictionary definitions for lenten
/ (ˈlɛntən) /
(often capital) of or relating to Lent
archaic, or literary spare, plain, or meagre: lenten fare
archaic cold, austere, or sombre: a lenten lover
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