Word: unleavenedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder. ▲ Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.? Proto-Italic *leɣʷis Latin levis Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin levō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Italic *-mn̥ Latin -men Vulgar Latin *levāmender. Old French levainbor. Middle English levayn English leaven English leavened English unleavened Proto-Germanic *-in- ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English unleavenedness From unleavened (“not being raised with a leaven or raising agent; (figurative) unaffected by something, unmoderated, unrelieved”) + -ness (suffix attached to adjectives forming abstract nouns with the sense ‘the quality or state of being [the adjective]’). Sense 1.2 (“condition or quality of being unaffected by something”) refers to a leaven such as yeast permeating through a dough and causing it to rise. Specifically, sense 1.2.2 (“condition or quality or being unaffected by sin”) refers to leaven being used in the Bible as a metaphor for sin affecting a person. See, for example, 1 Corinthians 5:6–8 (King James Version; spelling modernized): “[K]now ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the Feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” Pronunciation: /(ˌ)ʌnˈlɛvn̩dnəs/, /-nɪs/, /ˌʌnˈlɛvəndnəs/ 1. The condition or state of being unleavened. Labels: uncountable Example: 'Unleavened cakes.' Heb[rew] 'Cakes of unleavenednesses;' as intensitive mode of expression equivalent to 'altogether unleavened.' Example: The passover lamb was to be roast with fire, apparently that the analogy between it and the burnt-offering might be as far as possible complete. […] unleavened bread was to be eaten with it, leaven […] being generated of corruption, and so symbolic of decay and foulness; subsequently in the law, this prescription of unleavenedness was extended over all offerings of a cereal character: see Lev[iticus] ii. 11. 2. The condition or state of being unleavened. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: The Englishman will not adapt himself to his surroundings; he is not in the least bit an imitative animal; he will be nothing but an Englishman, and is out of place—an anomaly—in any country but his own. […] In this country he is too generally arrogant, fault-finding, and supercilious. The very traits of loudness, sharpness, and unleavenedness which I complain of in our national manners, he very frequently exemplifies in an exaggerated form. 3. The condition or state of being unleavened. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: As [John] Chrysostom and Anselm [of Canterbury] say, as by baptism you were made unleavened, i.e., pure from the leaven of sin, so consequently you are, or ought to be, from thenceforth unleavened, or pure and holy, by calling and profession. […] This unleavenedness of heart and life is put before each one at baptism, both in words and ceremonies, by the Church, […] Example: Participation in the sacrifice of Christ presumes unleavenedness in the participants; the unleavened bread and the passover are related (objectively) as repentance and faith (subjectively): […]