leavening

[ lev-uh-ning ]
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noun
  1. Also called leavening agent. a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or batter; leaven.

  2. the act or process of causing to ferment by leaven.

Origin of leavening

1
First recorded in 1600–10; leaven + -ing1

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How to use leavening in a sentence

  • Yet my unhappiness in all this was only a part of a general change that was quickly leavening me throughout.

  • She was a little astonished to see these girls turning it into play, leavening it with laughter.

    Peggy Raymond's Vacation | Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
  • No leavening except the eggs is used in the recipe for cake of this kind.

    Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • A few varieties of cake are made light by means of yeast instead of being leavened with eggs or chemical leavening agents.

    Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • It is this period of hesitating progress and slow leavening of men's ideas that we have to pass through in this week's lecture.

    Pioneers of Science | Oliver Lodge