Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder. Opposite of
unleavened .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
leaven . - adjective Prepared using
leavening
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder; often used as a combining form
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Examples
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The outcome of it all is, the one million communicants and the six millions more or less "leavened" by Christian principle and sentiment.
Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future Atticus Greene 1881
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But in Israel, stores and factories own millions of dollars worth of bread and other so-called "leavened" foods.
PRI's The World 2009
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Its collections are instant eye candy if the serious and erudite staff will forgive me, with magic in every imaginable material, leavened by irony and wit.
Coming In From the Cold Ada Louise Huxtable 2011
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But despite these several narrators and their widely differing stories, a kind of tonal monotony lies across the novel, which is devoid of the charming humor that leavened "The History of Love."
Ron Charles reviews "Great House," by Nicole Krauss Ron Charles 2010
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They will likely have a strange mix of sentiments: anger at the horrific economic legacy they inherited from New Labour, leavened with anxiety over the intractable problems of the euro zone.
Canada's Austerity Lessons for the U.K. Tim Knox 2012
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This woodcutter's progress through a saga full of turns and twists may sometimes try a reader's patience, but Wolf's romantic quest leavened by dark comedy affords a few spectacular views, including his lingering memory of his faithless wife, "burnt on his soul like a shadow on a wall left by an atomic explosion."
The Spy Tale as Rugged Romance Tom Nolan 2011
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But despite these several narrators and their widely differing stories, a kind of tonal monotony lies across the novel, which is devoid of the charming humor that leavened "The History of Love."
Ron Charles reviews "Great House," by Nicole Krauss Ron Charles 2010
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Oh, and I almost forgot—all of it is layered and leavened, feathered and filigreed in gruyere cheese.
Hold the...Well, Nothing Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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The tragic absurdity in his films is usually leavened by humor -- but in this one I tried to fight against my sense of humor, the film is very austere.
Erica Abeel: Both Nutzoid and Thrilling: Almodovar's The Skin I Live In Erica Abeel 2011
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No renewal angst here, thankfully, and whatever tension there is in the storyline tends to be leavened by outlandish escapism like when Andrew McCarthy's bad-guy Adler leaves our heroes to perish by flooding a dry dock, "super-villain" style, only to be, curses, foiled again.
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