1. A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday
   - Lententide

1. Bestow a quality on
   "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"
   - impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring 
2. Give temporarily; let have for a limited time
   "I will lend you my car"
   - loan 
3. Have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to
   "This story would lend itself well to serialization on television"; "The current system lends itself to great abuse"

Derived forms: Lents

See also: lendable, lender, lenten

Type of: alter, be, change, give, modify, season

Antonym: borrow

Part of: church calendar, ecclesiastical calendar

Encyclopedia: Lent, Ain Lent Lent, Netherlands Lent, Jura

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