Leavenous
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Containing leaven.
- 2 Inducing change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change. figuratively
"For our Religion where was there a more ignorant, profane, and vitious clergy, learned in nothing but the antiquitie of thir pride, thir covetouſnesſs and ſuperſtition; whoſe unſincere and levenous Doctrine corrupting the people, firſt taught them looſneſs, then bondage"
Example
More examples"For our Religion where was there a more ignorant, profane, and vitious clergy, learned in nothing but the antiquitie of thir pride, thir covetouſnesſs and ſuperſtition; whoſe unſincere and levenous Doctrine corrupting the people, firſt taught them looſneſs, then bondage"
Etymology
From leaven + -ous.
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