Cleaving

Pronunciation

Verb

1. Present participle of cleave

Full definition of cleaving

Noun

1. The act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs.
• 2010, Greg Kucich, Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism (page 273)Many of Spenser's readers today find the cleavings and reunifications of Redcrosse and Una presenting a psychodrama of mental fragmentation ...
2. The act of one who cleaves, clings, or adheres.
• 1813, John Owen, The grace and duty of being spiritually mindedOn all of them they renew their cleavings to God with love and delight.