cleaving
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cleaving
verb
- present participle and gerund of cleave The silence of a summer night is now sleeping on its bosom, where the bright stars are mirrored, as if in its depths they had another home and another heaven. A spirit, cleaving air midway between the two, might have paused to ask which was sea, and which was sky.
adjective
- That cleaves. My head blazed with pain. The speed, the cleaving wind, the flailing beams of light from traffic tormented me. And there was the sickly smell too that no night air could clear.
noun cleavings
- The act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs. In the luxurious wonder of so rare a dream, I took but little heed of time, and had but little understanding of its flight. But there were days and nights in it; and when the sun was high, and when the rays of lamps were crooked in the running water, I was still afloat, I thought: plashing the slipp
- The act of one who cleaves, clings, or adheres. On all of them they renew their cleavings to God with love and delight.
Talk about this word "cleaving." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cleaving. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. cleaving. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cleaving "cleaving." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cleaving.
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@misc{cleaving_2026,
title = {cleaving},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cleaving},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
