Meaning of Cleaving | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs.
2. The act of one who cleaves, clings, or adheres.

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Examples

“In the luxurious wonder⟳ of so rare a dream⟳, I took but little heed of time, and had but little understanding of its flight. But there were days and nights in it; and when the sun was high, and when the rays of lamps were crooked in the running water, I was still afloat, I thought: plashing the slippery walls and houses with the cleavings of the tide, as my black boat, borne upon it, skimmed along the streets.”

“Many of Spenser's readers today find⟳ the cleavings and reunifications of Redcrosse and Una presenting a psychodrama of mental fragmentation […]”

“On all of them they renew their cleavings to God with love⟳ and delight.”

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