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1.
lēten
v.
1283 quotations in 40 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) To grant (sb. land, rights, privileges);
fig.
allow (sb. time), grant (sb. a reprieve); grant (a place or room to hatred); (b) to bequeath (property), leave (property to sb. at one's death);
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