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Lenten vs Fasting - What's the difference?

lenten | fasting |

As an adjective Lenten

is pertaining to Lent; taking place during Lent.

As a verb fasting is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun fasting is

abstinence from food.

lenten

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.

    • fasting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • abstinence from food
  • * , The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
    • Immediately after that affair Lady Wondershoot, casting about for exemplary additions to the abuse and fastings she had inflicted, issued a Ukase. She issued it first to her butler, and very suddenly, so that she made him jump.