What part of speech is leaven?

Leaven can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. leaven is a verb, present, 1st person singular of leaven (infinitive).
  • 2. leaven is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. leaven is a noun, singular of leavens.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does leaven mean?

Definitions

Verb

leaven - To add a leavening agent .
leaven - To cause to rise by fermentation.
leaven - To temper an action or decision.
leaven - To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

Noun

leaven - a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
leaven - an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"

Examples of leaven

#   Sentence  
1. noun Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel.
2. noun Seven days there shall not be found any leaven in your houses: he that shall eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish out of the assembly of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land.
Sentence  
noun
Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel.
Seven days there shall not be found any leaven in your houses: he that shall eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish out of the assembly of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land.

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