An Anglican festival where you give up everything enjoyable in your life for a few weeks. Its supposed to make you a better person.
This year, for Lent, I gave up liquor at lunch, sex, erotic novels, surfing porn sites, dating, and dessert.
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Occasions relating to religious or moral significance
Create the best moral climate lents.
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It is the practice of fasting for a lengthy period of time. Typically practiced by college students everywhere. This is usually caused by a lack of money and the inability to buy food.
The College and Career group at church were practicing lent this last month.
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Having been under the influence of alcohol.
Me and my cuz went to the club last night and were lent by 10:30
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In the spanish language, lente, means glasses.
It's also comsidered a native american term.
"Aye mira mis lentes del Sol"
"I hate her glasses. They're so lentes!!!!"
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For a Catholic, not observing Lent every 7th year or so. Real Lent is not really 40 days and 40 nights since it doesn't include the 6 Sundays that occur during it. So, you can skip Lent on the 8th year because you have "made up" for the 40 days by observing 46 days the previous 7 years. It is like a leap year, except for Lent. For instance, observe Lent for 2010 - 2016 and observe Leap Lent for 2017. The extra 2 days can be used differently depending on the Leap Lent observer.
I'm really looking forward to Leap Lent this year. The past so many years I've had to give up so much red meat for a month and a half for Lent and I'm sick of fish!
Make haste slowly.
To do things the proper way instead of hurriedly and heedlessly; to see urgent things through in a thorough manner.
Translated from Latin to English, 'festina lente' means literally 'make haste slowly'; this translation also sounds a lot better than 'hurry slowly'.
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