What part of speech is leavening?

Leavening can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. leavening is a verb, gerund of leaven (infinitive).
  • 2. leavening is a noun, singular of leavenings.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does leavening mean?

Definitions

Adjective

leavening - Made light by aeration.

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

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

Examples of leavening

#   Sentence  
1. noun His sermons benefited from a leavening of humor.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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
His sermons benefited from a leavening of humor.
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.
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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