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. Carol Potter:

   In honor of Luke I have given up eating pork, in its many varied forms, for Lent, pigs are very intelligent animals and Luke often brought his sweetie to the set. Anyone want to join me?

3. James Park:

   They have lent money against the assets and they have fewer assets now, so the creditworthiness of the company is certainly in question, i would be very surprised if the case is dismissed.

4. Paola Sergi:

   It's almost like a fasting, like a Lent fasting -- you're not supposed to eat any meat.

5. 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.