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pent

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pent  (pnt)
v.
A past tense and a past participle of pen2.
adj.
Penned or shut up; closely confined.
pent [pɛnt]
vb
a past tense and past participle of pen2
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Adj.1.pent - closely confined
shut up
confined - not free to move about
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And so when love came to her it liberated all the pent passions of a thousand generations, transforming La into a pulsing, throbbing volcano of desire, and with desire thwarted this great force of love and gentleness and sacrifice was transmuted by its own fires into one of hatred and revenge.
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Neither do I reckon it an ill seat, only where the air is unwholesome; but likewise where the air is unequal; as you shall see many fine seats set upon a knap of ground, environed with higher hills round about it; whereby the heat of the sun is pent in, and the wind gathereth as in troughs; so as you shall have, and that suddenly, as great diversity of heat and cold as if you dwelt in several places.
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