I. noun
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A piece of dough was kept back after using the yeast and this is called leaven .
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None rejoice more in this leaven than the professional scholars themselves.
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This leaven was added the next time baking bread was done.
II. verb
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Feminist consciousness now leavens every relationship, every single social and professional encounter.
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His intellectualism now was leavened by experience.
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My affection for her was leavened with lesser likings and with admiration.
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Organist Dan Wall's power is leavened with subtlety and his four compositions are perfect vehicles for Abercrombie.
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What emerges from that tainted oven will likely be a typical loaf of local politics leavened by big money.