1) Act the lecher 2) Advanced 3) Advanced cash 4) Afforded 5) Ah, for the good old days 6) Allow new entry, fast 7) Allowed to be used 8) Allowed to use 9) Allowed to use for a while 10) Ash Wednesday beginner 11) Ash Wednesday begins it 12) Ash wednesday follower 13) Ash wednesday kicks it off 14) Ash Wednesday or Easter
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1) Borrowed 2) Gave 3) Lententide 4) On loan
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Lent (Latin: Quadragesima - English: Fortieth) is a solemn religious observance in the liturgical calendar of many Christian denominations that begins on Ash Wednesday and covers a period of approximately six weeks before Easter Day. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer through prayer, penance, repentance of sins, alm...
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• imp. & p. p. of Lend. • (n.) A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior. • (imp. & p. p.) of Lend • (a.) See Lento. • (a.) Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.
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in the Christian church, a period of penitential preparation for Easter. In Western churches it begins on Ash Wednesday, 612 weeks before Easter, ... [8 related articles]
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In the Christian church, the 40-day period of fasting that precedes
Easter, beginning on
Ash Wednesday (the d...
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A religious holiday, beginning with Ash Wednesday, the day after Mari Gras and continues for 40 days, would have Cajuns doing penance and not eating meat on Fridays. Instead they ate seafood. As another penance there was not any dancing during the Lenten season.
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Lent (lĕnt),
imperfect & past participle of
Lend .
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Lent adjective [ Latin
lentus ; akin to
lenis soft, mild: confer French
lent . See
Lenient .]
1. Slow; mild; gentle; as,
lenter heats. [ Obsolete]
B. Jonson. 2. (Mus.) See
Lento .
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Lent noun [ Middle English lente , lenten , leynte , Anglo-Saxon lengten , lencten , spring, lent, akin to Dutch lente , Old High German lenzin , langiz , German lenz , and perhaps from Anglo-Saxon lang long, English long
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The 40 days, from Ash Wednesday to Holy Week. Represents the40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness.
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Lent was the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of March. The Saxon spring festival of the goddess Easter, which generally fell in March, was adopted by the Christian church and a period of thirty-six days of fasting entitled lent was adopted in the 4th century, and in 487 Felix III added four days to the fast to represent the biblical account of Jesus...
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A 40 day period of fasting that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter. The purpose of fasting is to encourage spiritual discipline and devotional reflection. These 40 days usually don't include Sundays. Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Protestant churches celebrate this practice. For Orthodox Christians, Lent begins on Clean Monday...
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Period of just over 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter marked by fasting, penitence and alms-giving.
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slowly
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[
n] - a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday
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The liturgical season of forty days that begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with the celebration of the Paschal Mystery in the Easter Triduum.
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Lententide noun a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday
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In the Christian church, the 40-day period of fasting that precedes Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday (the day after Shrove Tuesday), but omitting Sundays
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