Levellers
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The hippy-heavy crowd at Glastonbury were in thrall to the Levellers: swelled by gatecrashers, this is possibly the biggest-ever Glastonbury headliner crowd, estimated at 300,000 people.
From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2020
After Charles I was overthrown and beheaded, the Levellers and the Diggers pushed for radical equality and an end to land ownership—objectives that by the play’s end it is painfully clear they will not achieve.
From Slate • May 7, 2018
Into this debate plunge the members of three new radical groups: the Diggers, the Ranters and the Levellers.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2018
Q:What is the best part of being The Levellers now as opposed to then?
From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2016
A strong party in the army, called the Levellers, openly advocated his execution, and the establishment of a republic; and parliament itself resolved to have no further treaty with him.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Lord, John
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