Synonyms for LENT
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Princeton's WordNet

1. Lent, Lententidenoun

   a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday

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1. lentnoun

   Synonyms:
   quadragesima

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1. List of paraphrases for "lent":

   loaned, provided, slow

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1. Richard Valantasis:

   In Eastern Orthodoxy, for example, the fasting rules are pretty elaborate -- no milk, no eggs, no meat, no fish with blood systems, and sometimes no leavened bread, even though the foods for Lent are really wonderful and tasty, they still remind you that you are in the middle of a fasting period and therefore, your eating habits continually reinforce the spiritual disciplines you're supposed to be working through.

2. Alexander Aitken:

   I can’t see there being much willingness to give a fairer outcome to offshore bondholders rather than onshore banks, let alone house buyers and people who have lent onshore through the personal loan structures, of course legally there is also structural subordination from being offshore, which means lenders to Evergrande’s onshore subsidiaries get paid before lenders to the parent company or any offshore debt issuer.

3. Robert Menendez:

   If I thought that this was just a messaging bill that was going to go absolutely nowhere, then I wouldn’t have lent my name to it, having said that, yes, this will be tough.

4. Chairman Brian Madderson:

   We are grateful for the support lent by the government through their provision of military drivers, although further action must be taken to address the needs of disproportionately affected areas.

5. Gren Sowerby:

   I lent [sic] in to take a photo when he let out a huge roarI got the shock of my life, he roared to say: Im the King of the Jungle and then I couldnt believe it when he smiled at me like when someone winks at you to say like: Haha!