leaven

[leav·en]

Leaven, as a noun, is that which causes transformation. It’s the source of yeast that makes your bread rise, it’s the risen bread, and it’s anything that changes the nature of something else.

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Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.

Noun
an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"

Noun
a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid

Verb
cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"


n.
Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.

n.
Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.

v. t.
To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.

v. t.
To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.


Leaven

Leav"en , n. [OE. levain, levein, F. levain, L. levamen alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that which raises, fr. levare to raise. See Lever, n.] 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm. 2. Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Leaven

Leav"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leavened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Leavening .] 1. To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
2. To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer.

Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.

To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.

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Usage Examples

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

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