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Definition of 'leaven'English
Noun
( en-noun)
Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
(figurative) Anything that makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
* Bible, Luke xii. 1
- Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Derived terms
* leavenless
* natural leaven
Verb
( en-verb)
To add a leavening agent.
To cause to rise by fermentation.
(figuratively) To temper an action or decision.
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- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
* Milton
- With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer.
Derived terms
* leavened
* leavening
* unleavened
See also
* yeast
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