📚 Cleave, verb. 🔉 /kliːv/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (cleave to • no object): Adhere strongly to (a particular pursuit or belief) ❗️ Examples: 1. Part of why we cleave to sports is that excellence is so measurable. 2. Nobody gets points for being virtuous and cleaving to fidelity when there are no opportunities to do otherwise. 3. It struck a chord with one of the superstore's workers, who cleaves to anonymity presumably to cleave to her job. 4. I concluded that I rather regret not having completely cleaved to the letter of the law. 5. Jean Bodin's famous definition of 1576 of the commonwealth was one which the following century could instinctively cleave to. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic