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lencten

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
lencten, lengten, lenten, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§318;
Spring, Lent
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  • Lencten

    ver:

    foreweard lencten vel middewærd lencten

    ver novum:

    æfterwærd lencten

    ver adultum,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 95
      • ;
    • Som. 76, 7, 12-14
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 53, 21, 26, 27
      • .

  • Swá nú lencten and hærfest; on lencten hit gréwþ, and on hærfest hit fealwiaþ,

    • Bt. 21
      • ;
    • Fox 74, 22
      • .

  • Gif middes wintres messedeg biþ on sunnandeg, ðonne biþ gód winter and lengten windi,

    • Lchdm. iii. 162, 26
      • .

  • Winter biþ cealdost, lencten hrímigost,

    • Menol. Fox 471
      • ;
    • Gn. C. 6
      • .

  • Wæs ðá lencten ágán bútan vi. nihtum ǽr sumeres cyme on Maias Kł.,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 2452
      • ;
    • El. 1227.

  • Ðæs sylfan lentenes hé fór tó Róme

    in the course of the same spring he went to Rome,

    • Chr. 1048
      • ;
    • Erl. 177, 13
      • .

  • Ðá com Æðelréd cyning innan ðam lenctene hám tó his ágenre þeóde,

    • 1014
      • ;
    • Erl. 150, 17
      • .

  • Sunnan glǽm on lenctenne lífes tácen weceþ

    the sun's gleam in spring wakes signs of life,

    • Exon. 59 b
      • ;
    • Th. 215, 16
      • ;
    • Ph. 254
      • .

  • Ðé má ðe man mót on lenctene flǽsces brúcan

    any more than flesh may be eaten in Lent,

    • Wulfst. 305, 25
      • .

  • Sumor ðú and lencten swylce geworhtest

    æstatem et ver tu plasmasti ea,

    • Ps. Th. 73, 16
      • .

  • Ðone lencten wǽron him on Cent

    during the spring they were in Kent,

    • Chr. 1009
      • ;
    • Erl. 143, 14
      • .

  • Nis nán blódlǽstíd swá gód swá on foreweardne lencten

    there is no time for letting blood so good as its the early spring,

    • L. M. 1, 72
      • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 148, 3
      • :
    • 2, 30
      • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 228, 8
      • .

  • Gif mon in lencten hálig ryht in folce bútan leáfe álecgge gebéte mid cxx. sciłł

    if any one in Lent suppress holy law among the people without leave, let him make amends with cxx shillings,

    • L. Alf. pol. 40
      • ;
    • Th. i. 88, 13
      • .

  • Ðú dydes sumer and lenten,

    • Ps. Surt. 73, 17
      • .
Etymology
[
Piers P. lenten
:
Prompt. Parv. lente
:
cf. O. H. Ger. lengiz and lenzo ver
:
Ger. lenz. v. Grmm; D. M. 715.
]
Linked entries
v.  lengten.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “lencten.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/21359.

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