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Definition of Leavenings
1. leavening [n] - See also: leavening
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leavenings
Literary usage of Leavenings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications (1848)
"... although they never saw all the superstitious leavenings wherewith the Pharisees
had bewitched them : and so no doubt may godly persons now, ..."
2. Publications of the Narragansett Club by Narragansett Club, Roger Williams, John Cotton, Narragansett Club (Providence, R.I.) (1867)
"... That though the converted Jewes did not fee all the leavenings of the Pha ...
that the converted Jewes did not fee all the leavenings of the ..."
3. Arcana Cœlestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures Or by Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedenborg Foundation (1878)
"Because, as was said, such combats as are signified by leavenings or fermentations
have place with man in the state previous to a new state of life, ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Breads we have of several grains, roots, and kernels; yea and some of flesh and
fish dried; with divers kinds of leavenings and seasonings: so that some do ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Breads we have of several grains, with divers kinds of leavenings and seasonings;
so that some do extremely move appetites, and some do nourish so as divers ..."
6. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon, James Spedding, William Rawley, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (1870)
"Breads we have of several grains, roots, and kernels: yea and some of flesh and
fish dried; with divers kinds of leavenings and seasonings: so that some do ..."
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