Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An agent that causes rising, fermentation, or ferment; leaven.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of making light by means of leaven; the act of exciting fermentation in anything.
- n. That which leavens or makes light.
Wiktionary
- adj. made light by aeration
- n. a leavening agent
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven.
- n. That which leavens or makes light.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
- n. an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something
Examples
“The men were mostly Swiss, but with a leavening from the German states, and they were a sober, steady battalion that Wellesley planned to lead to the Inner Palace to protect its contents and its harem from the ravages of the attackers.”
“Ministers are employed in leavening places, in leavening souls, with the gospel.”
“Regarding the coconut cake, all the ingredients technically are kosher for Passover, but it hasn't been _certified_ basically, a rabbi checks to make sure that it's been made on equipment that's been completely cleansed of all leavening aka chametz.”
“-- That but one man, and he with one leg, should have such ill power given him; his one sour word leavening into congenial sourness (as, to my knowledge, it did) the dispositions, before sweet enough, of a numerous company.”
“Jr. wrote to Dennett, "I am in entire sympathy with the idea of leavening the loaf.”
“So he should have a note of kind of leavening here.”
“But the circle doesn't allow room for notes on some finesse elements for these prepartions, such as mixing method, how much salt, what kind of leavening, possible variations.”
“As war novels go, it's a departure from the norm, leavening the gruesome depictions of combat with jokes, proverbs and stories from the lives the soldiers left behind.”
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“But they also understood that the danger of too much government is matched by the perils of too little; that without the leavening hand of wise policy, markets can crash, monopolies can stifle competition, and the vulnerable can be exploited.”
“I leavened the dough with baking soda and cream of tartar in place of baking powder (although cream of tartar is often the main component in baking powder) because that is the traditional leavening combination for snickerdoodles.”
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