A period of fasting and penitence, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending shortly before Easter, observed in the Christian Church in commemoration…
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| 释义 | society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lent > 			[noun]		 (21)		 LentenOE A period of fasting and penitence, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending shortly before Easter, observed in the Christian Church in commemoration… Lent tidelOE †(a) the season of spring (obsolete); (b) the season of Lent (sense 2a). Lentc1300 Chiefly with capital initial. A period of fasting and penitence, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending shortly before Easter, observed in the… Lent timec1400 Quadragesime1483 Lent; a fast during Lent. Lent season?1490 †(a) the season of spring (obsolete); (b) the season of Lent (sense 2a). Quadragesimac1560 (a) Lent; the forty days of Lent. (b) The first Sunday in Lent. Also Quadragesima Sunday. Great Lent1591 the most important fasting period of the religious year, esp. in Orthodox Churches; = Lent, n.1 2a. Great Fasta1670 the most important period of fasting and abstinence in a religious calendar, as Lent in Christianity, Yom Kippur in Judaism, or Ramadan in Islam. shrift-time1853 Lent. Subcategories:— 			first day of			(3)		 — 			first Sunday in			(3)		 — 			fourth Sunday in			(1)		 — 			scambling days			(1)		 — 			period during when no fast is imposed			(3)		 | 
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