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Wright's OE grammar
§318;
Add: , lenten.
spring.
The season according to the poetical calendar began on Feb. 7 and ended on May 8
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  • Æfter seofentýnum þrowade nihtgerímes Mathias (

    his day was

      Feb. 24)
    þæs þe lencten on tún geliden hæfde, Menol. 28.

  • Hér wæs mycel gefeoht on Norðhymbra lande on lengtene (

    in spring or in Lent ? )

    on .iiii.
      No. Apł , Chr. 798; P. 57, 35.

  • On længtene eregian and impian, beána sáwan . . . ,

      Angl. ix. 262, 6.

  • Þú þá treówa on hærfesttíd heora leáfa bereáfast, and eft on lencten óþru leáf sellest,

      Bt. 4; F. 8, 7.

  • Lengten,

      39, 13 ; F. 234, 18.
Lent (with this sense the word seems neuter, taking the gender of fæsten ?)
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  • Fram idus Septembris oð lenctenes (

    quadragesime) anginne hý on án mǽl tó nónes gereorden. Ofer eal lencten (in quadragesima )

    oþ eástran hý oð ǽfen fæsten,
      R. Ben. 66, 4-6.

  • Be lenctenes gýmene

    de Quadragesime observatione

    ,
      76, 2.

  • On lænctenes fæstenes dagum

    in quadragesime diebus

    ,
      R. Ben. I. 82, 15.

  • Sume menn dyslíce fæstað ofer heora mihte on gemǽnelicum lenctene,

      Hml. S. 13, 94.

  • Ic þé lǽre ꝥ þú þín lengten rihtlíce gehealde, and tó ánes mǽles þæt fæsten gefæste,

      Wlfst. 247, 33.

  • Fæste hé án lengten (

    unam quadrigesimam

    ),
      Ll. Th. ii. 210, 25.

  • On þám þrím lengctenum,

      134, 31.

  • Fæste hé .ii. lengtenu,

      210, 27. iii. lengctenu, 194, 12.

  • Lengteno,

      192, 5.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. lenten.]
Similar entries
v. foran-lencten (Lch. ii. 256, 1), mid-lencten.
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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/54458.

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