Levellers
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
The ideas of the Levellers and Diggers were said by the late Labour politician Tony Benn to have helped to shape the American and French revolutions.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2015
The festival will be headlined by Richard Hawley, the Levellers and Labrinth, and will also feature appearances from Billy Bragg, London Grammar, Andrew Weatherall and the Wurzels.
From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2013
He treated the Levellers with some severity and showed his instinctive dislike to revolutionary proposals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
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