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leveller
[ lev-uh-ler ]
noun
- (usually initial capital letter) (during the British Civil War) a member of the Parliamentary army advocating constitutional reforms, equal rights, and religious tolerance.
- Chiefly British. leveler.
leveller
/ ˈlɛvələ /
noun
- a person or thing that levels
- a person who works for the abolition of inequalities
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- self-level·ler noun
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Example Sentences
The old leveller, Nature, is at her eternal work of rotation, turning the big wheel round.
He was an Educationalist, and Education is the true Leveller.
The most immediate effect upon Glen of the leveller's departure was to promote him and increase his pay.
The eighteenth century was by no means a leveller of distinctions, but all classes met together without levelling.
Like Mrs. Cornelys's masquerades and assemblies, Vauxhall was the great leveller of the eighteenth century.
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