单词 | clean lent |
释义 | > as lemmasClean Lent a. A period of fasting and penitence, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending shortly before Easter, observed in the Christian Church in commemoration of the time Jesus spent in the wilderness. Now also: a period of fasting or abstinence observed at the same time in secular culture. Formerly also in: † Clean Lent in the same sense (obsolete). Different denominations calculate the period slightly differently, but Lent is typically based on a period of forty days, excluding Sundays. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lent > [noun] LentenOE Lent tidelOE Lentc1300 Lent timec1400 Quadragesime1483 Lent season?1490 Quadragesimac1560 Great Lent1591 Great Fasta1670 shrift-time1853 c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) l. 352 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 229 Fram þulke tyme forto in leinte no lond huy ne i-seiȝe. a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1733 Þe holy ffeste of Ester comeþ after leynte anon. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. l. 350 As wel in lente as oute of lente. c1400 (?c1308) Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) l. 117 (MED) On Wedenysday in clene leinte. a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 12 An ȝif if it be in lente, lef þe ȝolkys of Eyroun. 1527 Warden's Acct. Morebath, Devon in Western Antiquary (1891) Apr. 150/2 The 2 sonday in clene Lente. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxli The first Sondaie in Lent, Stephyn Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, preached at Paules crosse. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 127 An olde hare hore is verie good meate in Lent . View more context for this quotation c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iv. 1434 Cocus..hath an intent, To curry favour, to dresse meat in Lent. 1647 Moderate Intelligencer No. 109. 1012 The first Sunday in Lent there was solemn service in the Quirinall. 1723 Dictionarium Sacrum seu Religiosum (ed. 2) 305/1 A Liturgy, called the Pre-Sanctified,..is said all Lent long, except Saturdays and Sundays. 1769 T. Gray Let. 26 Jan. in Corr. (1971) III. 1054 Palgrave keeps Lent at home & wants to be ask'd to break it. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves iii, in Friend 21 Sept. 92 Ellen always kept her Church All Church-days during Lent. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 414 Many a cargo of salt cod for Lent..was there. 1926 Press (Canterbury, N.Z.) 20 Mar. 12/2 The demand for preserved fish of all descriptions is good at present and will continue so until after Lent. 1981 R. Davies Rebel Angels (1983) 259 Lent, proper season for self-examination, perhaps for self-mortification, but never, so far as I know, a season for love. 2014 N.Y. Times 6 Jan. (Late ed.) a18/3 I..often gave up drinking for Lent. < as lemmas |
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