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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
lenten
    adj 1: of or relating to or suitable for Lent; "lenten food"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lenten \Lent"en\ (l[e^]nt"'n), n.
   Lent. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lenten \Lent"en\, a. [From OE. lenten lent. See Lent, n. ]
   1. Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or
      suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season.
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            She quenched her fury at the flood,
            And with a Lenten salad cooled her blood. --Dryden.
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   2. Spare; meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant
      or showy. "Lenten entertainment." " Lenten answer."
      --Shak. " Lenten suit." --Beau. & Fl.
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   Lenten color, black or violet. --F. G. Lee.
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Thesaurus Results for Lenten:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Apostolic, Encratic, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abstemious, abstinent, ascetic, austere, celibate, chaste, continent, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, fasting, frugal, fruitarian, impoverished, jejune, lean, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow, nephalistic, niggardly, on the wagon, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, quadragesimal, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, sexually abstinent, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, sworn off, teetotal, thin, uneating, unfed, unnourishing, unnutritious, vegetarian, watered, watery
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