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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