lent

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And there is an inlaid box I lent her--lent, not gave--to keep her handkerchiefs in.

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  1. verb Past tense and past participle of lend.

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  1. from Old French and F. lent = Spanish Portuguese Italian lento, pliant, flexible, tenacious, slow, sluggish, easy, calm, from Latin lentus (in form as if contr. of lenitus, past participle of lenire, soften), from lenis, soft, smooth, gentle, akin to English lithe: see lenity, lenient, etc., and leath, lithe. Hence relent.
 

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