0 present participle of leaven --
1 to add a substance to bread or another food made with flour to make it increase in size when it is cooked --
That might be a very good way of leavening the tendency to express our protests, as part of our particular inclinations.
Phosphates are used as leavening agents in cakes, biscuits, and other flour products.
They are there to provide a leavening of experience and expertise based on their business to go alongside the work of technical experts on the staff.
For the hotelier of medium size who cannot see solid bookings throughout the year, there is an obvious case for leavening his hotel occupancy with a number of retired people.
Nor should the arts graduate be overlooked in this context, for a leavening of scientific knowledge is necessary in these days for the archaeologist and the historian.
We cannot force girls to be educated with boys at all times; however, their leavening influence is to be desired by those who, like myself, produce only boy children.
He has a point of view of his own, and we shall watch with expectancy the effects of the leavening of new ideas.
A foreign leavening is desirable in any good university, but it should be a leavening and not a near take-over.
