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Sleaving vs Cleaving - What's the difference?

sleaving | cleaving |

As verbs the difference between sleaving and cleaving

is that sleaving is while cleaving is .

As a noun cleaving is

the act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs.

sleaving

English

Verb

(head)

    • cleaving

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs.
  • * 2010 , Greg Kucich, Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism (page 273)
    • Many of Spenser's readers today find the cleavings and reunifications of Redcrosse and Una presenting a psychodrama of mental fragmentation
  • The act of one who cleaves, clings, or adheres.
  • * 1813 , John Owen, The grace and duty of being spiritually minded
    • On all of them they renew their cleavings to God with love and delight .