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leavenous

leavenous adjective: containing leaven; leavened.

Adjective

leavenous (comparative more leavenous, superlative most leavenous)

  1. Containing leaven; leavened.
  2. (figuratively) Inducing change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
    • For our Religion where was there a more ignorant, profane, and vitious clergy, learned in nothing but the antiquitie of thir pride, thir covetouſnesſs and ſuperſtition; whoſe unſincere and levenous Doctrine corrupting the people, firſt taught them looſneſs, then bondage1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter IX, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, pages 79–80

Forms of leavenous

comparativemore leavenous
superlativemost leavenous

Origin of leavenous

From leaven + -ous.

Questions about leavenous

What does leavenous mean?
Leavenous means containing leaven; leavened.
What part of speech is leavenous?
Leavenous is an adjective.

Words near leavenous in the dictionary

  1. leavening
  2. leavening agent
  3. leavening agents
  4. leavenings
  5. leavenless
  6. leavenous
  7. leavens
  8. Leavenworth
  9. Leavenworth County
  10. Leavenworths
  11. leaver

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