Definitions for leavens

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leavens leav·en

Spelling: [lev-uh n]

IPA: /ˈlɛv ən/

Leavens is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in leavens (aeelnsv).

Definitions for leavens

noun

1. a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
2. fermented dough reserved for producing fermentation in a new batch of dough.
3. an element that produces an altering or transforming influence.

verb (used with object)

1. to add leaven to (dough or batter) and cause to rise.
2. to permeate with an altering or transforming element.

Origin of leavens

1300-50; Middle English levain Anglo-French, Old French levain Vulgar Latin *levāmen, equivalent to Latin levā(re) to raise + -men deverbal noun suffix (probably not continuous with Latin lev

Examples for leavens

It is hard to say if there might not have been some leaven of "pique" in these reasonings.

One can hardly conceive how disagreeable this leaven was to the taste.

He compares it to little things, to a tiny seed, to a handful of leaven, to a pearl.

They contain the leaven of the faith, life and spirit of Protestantism.

Science has already to some extent leavened the world; it will leaven it more and more.

“So you give the right information” but leaven it with laughs.

The leaven of the psychology of independence was getting in its work.

I could feel the leaven working in his soul, you understand.

All of our tasks should be sweetened and glorified with the leaven of good humor.

They cannot draw together, as in England, and leaven the lump.