Definitions for LEAVEN
ˈlɛv ənleav·en

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. leaven, leaveningnoun

   a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid

2. leaven, leaveningverb

   an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something

   "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"

3. raise, leaven, proveverb

   cause to puff up with a leaven

   "unleavened bread"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. leavennoun

   Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.

2. leavenverb

   To add a leavening agent.

3. leavenverb

   To cause to rise by fermentation.

4. leavenverb

   To temper an action or decision.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LEAVENnoun

   Etymology: levain, French; levare, Latin.

   1. Ferment mixed with any body to make it light; particularly used of sour dough mixed in a mass of bread.

   It shall not be baken with leaven. Lev. vi. 17.

   All fermented meats and drinks are easiliest digested; and those unfermented, by barm or leaven, are hardly digested. John Floyer.

   2. Any mixture which makes a general change in the mass.

   Many of their propositions favour very strong of the old leaven of innovations. Charles I .

2. To Leavenverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To ferment by something mixed.

   You must tarry the leav’ning. William Shakespeare, Troil. and Cressida.

   Whosoever eateth leavened bread, that soul shall be cut off. Exod. xii. 17.

   Breads we have of several grains, with divers kinds of leavenings, and seasonings; so that some do extremely move appetites. Francis Bacon, Atlantis.

   2. To taint; to imbue.

   That cruel something unpossest,
   Corrodes and leavens all the rest. Matthew Prior.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. leaven

   In cooking, a leavening agent () or raising agent, also called a leaven () or leavener, is any one of a number of substances used in doughs and batters that cause a foaming action (gas bubbles) that lightens and softens the mixture. An alternative or supplement to leavening agents is mechanical action by which air is incorporated (i.e. kneading). Leavening agents can be biological or synthetic chemical compounds. The gas produced is often carbon dioxide, or occasionally hydrogen.When a dough or batter is mixed, the starch in the flour and the water in the dough form a matrix (often supported further by proteins like gluten or polysaccharides, such as pentosans or xanthan gum). The starch then gelatinizes and sets, leaving gas bubbles that remain.

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1. leaven

   Leaven is a substance such as yeast or baking powder that is used in dough to make it rise by producing gas that gets trapped in it. It can also refer metaphorically to a factor or influence that promotes growth or change.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Leavennoun

   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. Leavennoun

   anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass

3. Leavenverb

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

4. Leavenverb

   to imbue; to infect; to vitiate

5. Etymology: [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.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Leaven

   lev′n, n. the ferment which makes dough rise in a spongy form: anything that makes a general change, whether good or bad.—v.t. to raise with leaven: to taint.—n. Leav′ening.—adj. Leav′enous, containing leaven. [Fr. levain—L. levamen—levāre, to raise—levis, light.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of LEAVEN in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of LEAVEN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of LEAVEN in a Sentence

1. Stephen Covey:

   I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

2. The Talmud:

   There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality.

3. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   Whether wealth bring the curse of selfishness along with it, or that the leaven was in our nature, only dormant till called forth by circumstances, we are only too apt to misuse it, even as others have done before us.

4. George Will:

   If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

5. Spencer W. Kimball:

   The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=LEAVEN
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Leaven
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=LEAVEN
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaven
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/LEAVEN
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=LEAVEN