Leaven

Definitions

1. Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
   countable, uncountable
2. Anything that induces change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
3. Chametz.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Take⟳ heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.”

“On the far side was reflected a single red and meteoric cloud, which had treasured one last⟳ crimson ray from the sunset, or perhaps nursed within it the fiery leaven.”

“The leaven of insincerity worked through all the fibres of his being.”

“On the fourteenth day of Nisan men search⟳ for leaven by candlelight.”

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