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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lent: so called because it continues forty days. See
Lent .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.) The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
- noun the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the first Sunday in Lent
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Still it has been used from the Anglo-Saxon period to translate the more significant Latin term quadragesima (Fr. carême,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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; Italian as quaresima; and Spanishas cuaresma, these all deriving from the Latin quadragesima, meaning 'fortieth'.
CathNews 2010
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; Italian as quaresima; and Spanishas cuaresma, these all deriving from the Latin quadragesima, meaning 'fortieth'.
CathNews 2010
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Et hoc ab ineunte quadragesima vsque ad octo dies post Pascha.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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In tota siquidem illa quadragesima fuerat cibus noster millum cum aqua et sale tantùm, et in alijs similiter diebus ieiuniorum.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Istorum Iugurum sacerdotes habent talem habitum quocunque vadunt: semper sunt in tunicis croceis satis strictis accincti desuper recte sicut Franci: et habent pallium super humerum sinistrum descendens inuolutum per pectus et dorsum ad latus dextrum sicut diaconus portans casulam in quadragesima.
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Et hoc ab ineunte quadragesima vsque ad octo dies post Pascha.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In tota siquidem illa quadragesima fuerat cibus noster millum cum aqua et sale tant鵰, et in alijs similiter diebus ieiuniorum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Istorum Iugurum sacerdotes habent talem habitum quocunque vadunt: semper sunt in tunicis croceis satis strictis accincti desuper recte sicut Franci: et habent pallium super humerum sinistrum descendens inuolutum per pectus et dorsum ad latus dextrum sicut diaconus portans casulam in quadragesima.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In Prosperpinæ sacris cæsa arbor in effigiem virginis formaraque componitur, et cum intra civitatem fuerit illata, quadraginta noctibus pIangitur, quadragesima vero nocte comburitur. ''
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