1. cleaving - Noun
2. cleaving - Adjective
3. cleaving - Verb
of Cleave
Source: Webster's dictionaryI'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. George Eliot
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring. Aldo Leopold
The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space. Immanuel Kant
That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support. Alexander Maclaren
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit. Emily Dickinson
When hosts of foes with foes engage, And round th' anointed hero rage, The cleaving fauchion I misguide, And turn the feather'd shaft aside. Joseph Addison