Lenten

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈlÉ›ntÉ™n/

Origin

Old English lenten, lencten.

Full definition of Lenten

Adjective

1. 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 ....
2. 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 ....
• A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXIX, line 8-10:And there's the Lenten lily
  That has not long to stay
  And dies on Easter day.