Lent vs Lenten - What's the difference?
lent | lenten |
(lend)
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The lumbar region; loin.
The loins; flank; buttocks.
To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be ed.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To make a loan.
(reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
* Addison
* J. A. Symonds
(proscribed) To borrow.
Pertaining to Lent; taking place during Lent.
*1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
*:And perhaps it was the same politick drift that the Divell whipt St. Jerom'' in a lenten dream, for reading ''Cicero [...].
Appropriate to Lent; meagre, sombre.
*1602 , (William Shakespeare), , II.2:
*:To thinke, my Lord, if you delight not in Man, what Lenton entertainment the Players shall receiue from you [...].
* , , XXIX, line 8-10:
*:And there's the Lenten lily / That has not long to stay / And dies on Easter day.
As a verb lent
is past tense of lend.As a proper noun Lent
is period of penitence for Christians before Easter.As an adjective Lenten is
pertaining to Lent; taking place during Lent.lent
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Verb
(head)lend
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lende (usually in plural as lendes, leendes, lyndes), from (etyl) lendenu, .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland) * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)Etymology 2
From earlier len (with excrescent -d'', as in . See also (l).Verb
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- Can you lend me some assistance?
- The famous director lent his name to the new film.
- Cato, lend me for a while thy patience.
- Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions.