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leavenous, a.|ˈlɛv(ə)nəs|
[f. leaven n. + -ous.]
Having the properties of leaven.
1649Milton Eikon. ix. Wks. 1851 III. 401 A..vitious clergy..whose unsincere and levenous Doctrine corrupting the people, first taught them loosness, then bondage. 1677Warwick Mem. Chas. I (1701) 78 When they [Dissenters] would mingle their leavenous zeal with a dissatisfied Lay⁓lump..it so fermented the blood that at last it cast the whole body into a distemper. |