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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Does "leaven" mean "binding material" here?
No dictionary entry for the word leaven sees fit in here.
Context:
You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of ournational system of defense.
Context:
You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of ournational system of defense.
Top answer
com/us/definition/american_english/leaven would work? A pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it for the better I have to confess that this is not a meaning I am terribly familiar with.
- com/us/definition/american_english/leaven would work?
- A pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it for the better I have to confess that this is not a meaning I am terribly familiar with.
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I think that sense 2 at http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/leaven would work?
A pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it for the better
I have to confess that this is not a meaning I am terribly familiar with
A pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it for the better
I have to confess that this is not a meaning I am terribly familiar with
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Thanks.
Just let me know what your intuition told you at your first reading of the word leaven.
Just let me know what your intuition told you at your first reading of the word leaven.
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I think of "leaven" primarily as something that makes something rise, or makes something lighter, either in a literal sense (usually in relation to bread or similar), or in a figurative sense (e.g. lightening a mood).
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