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LENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday
Synonyms:
Lent; Lententide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Lent" is a kind of...):
season (a recurrent time marked by major holidays)
Meronyms (parts of "Lent"):
Good Friday (Friday before Easter)
Ash Wednesday (the 7th Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent; the day following Mardi Gras ('Fat Tuesday'); a day of fasting and repentance)
Holonyms ("Lent" is a part of...):
church calendar; ecclesiastical calendar (a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb lend
Context examples:
As I did so, I could hear hails coming and going between the old buccaneer and his comrades, and this sound of danger lent me wings.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Yes, to be sure! I am very much obliged to you, Copperfield; but—I am afraid I have lent him that already.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Lent her by Father Christopher of the priory, forsooth—that is ever her answer.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had no more discoveries to make than you would have as to the fashion and strength of any old pelisse, which you had seen lent about among half your acquaintance ever since you could remember, and which at last, on some very wet day, is lent to yourself.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She had heard, as soon as she got back to Mrs. Goddard's, that Mr. Martin had been there an hour before, and finding she was not at home, nor particularly expected, had left a little parcel for her from one of his sisters, and gone away; and on opening this parcel, she had actually found, besides the two songs which she had lent Elizabeth to copy, a letter to herself; and this letter was from him, from Mr. Martin, and contained a direct proposal of marriage.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
You will learn from Poole how I have had London ransacked; it was in vain; and I am now persuaded that my first supply was impure, and that it was that unknown impurity which lent efficacy to the draught.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It certainly seemed to me at the time to be very wicked that a man should look glum when he heard of a British victory; and when they burned his straw image at the gate of his farm, Boy Jim and I were among those who lent a hand.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half-and-half, two fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but whose biographies I was compelled to listen to.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Don Pedro accompanied me to the ship, and lent me twenty pounds.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I remember now seeing the letter E. comprised in your initials written in books you have at different times lent me; but I never asked for what name it stood.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
