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lentor en · NOUN
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable, usually) Viscosity, thickness (chiefly of blood).
I find there was no wrong Presentation, only a Lentor in the pains perhaps […].
1797 September 1, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:There is a lentor or smoothness in the blood of healthy strong people […]
1744, George Berkeley, Siris:
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(uncountable, usually) Slowness, sluggishness.
[S]he walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water […].
1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
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