Leavee vs Leaven - What's the difference?
leavee | leaven |
The person in a relationship who is left by the other.
* 2009 , Lisa Rene Reynolds, Still a Family: A Guide to Good Parenting Through Divorce (page 125)
Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
(figurative) Anything that makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
* Bible, Luke xii. 1
To add a leavening agent.
To cause to rise by fermentation.
(figuratively) To temper an action or decision.
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To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between leavee and leaven
is that leavee is the person in a relationship who is left by the other while leaven is any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.As a verb leaven is
to add a leavening agent.leavee
English
Noun
(en noun)- The leavee is the one who may not have been quite ready to give up on the relationship and so may feel still committed in some way to the marriage.
leaven
English
Noun
(en noun)- Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Derived terms
* leavenless * natural leavenVerb
(en verb)- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer.
