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Meaning of leavenous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Containing leaven.
  2. Inducing change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
    figuratively

Examples

“For our Religion where was there a more ignorant, profane, and vitious clergy, learned in nothing but the antiquitie of thir pride, thir covetouſnesſs and ſuperſtition; whoſe unſincere and levenous Doctrine corrupting the people, firſt taught them looſneſs, then bondage”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Leavisian leavy Lebanese Lebesgue measurable lebetiform Lebo

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