Pent

Quick meaning: Pent is a noun meaning Confinement; concealment.

Meaning

Confinement; concealment.

More Meanings

1. Confined in, or as if in, a pen; imprisoned.
2. (informal, music) A pentatonic scale.
3. (informal, paganism) A pentacle or pentagram.
4. (archaic) simple past and past participle of pen; alternative form of penned.

Example Sentences

There was a catch in my voice, thick as it was with the pent of unshed tears; had I let them flow they would have come out forty per cent proof.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime — The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment!

[> What symbols mean the most to you? For instance, what do you wear around your neck and why?] Usually, a triquetra, although I have ankhs, pents and a spell-bottle on amber beads which I wear if I find it necessary to be *really* annoying :)

As the old woman, with a gigantic and distorted image of herself thrown half upon the wall behind her, half upon the roof above, sat bending over the few loose bricks within which it was pent, on the damp hearth of the chimney—for there was no stove—she looked as if she were watching at some witch’s altar for a favourable token; […]

Word Forms

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Synonyms for pent

Depending on context, synonyms include confined, shut up.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include confined, shut up, absent, confine, incagement, confiner.

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