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leaven

Element inducing fermentation. The term is applied to the yeast added to dough in bread-making; it is used figuratively to describe any pervasive influence, usually in a good sense, although in the Old Testament it symbolized corruption, and unleavened bread was used in sacrifice.

During the Jewish festival of Pesach (Passover), all leaven is removed from the house.



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A LITTLE reason, to be sure, a germ of wisdom scattered from star to star-- this leaven is mixed in all things: for the sake of folly, wisdom is mixed in all things!
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven and entered into everybody's food; it was fermenting still as a distinguishable vigorous enthusiasm in certain long-haired German artists at Rome, and the youth of other nations who worked or idled near them were sometimes caught in the spreading movement.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Hasn't life at Patty's Place been really much brighter and pleasanter this past winter because I've been here to leaven you?
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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