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A radical who advocates the abolition of political or economic or social inequalities
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leveller
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a radical who advocates the abolition of political or economic or social inequalities [syn: leveler ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE great ▪ The traffic on Piccadilly was a great leveller . ▪ Because a failed relationship is a great leveller - a universal experience. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At the opposite extreme, paupers' graves had long been ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: level ) alt. (en-comparative of: level ) n. 1 A person or thing that levels. 2 A person holding a political opinion in favor of eliminating disparities between the haves and the have nots. 3 (context sports English) An equaliser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, someone or something that makes level; agent noun of level (v.). From 1640s as the name of a political party of the time of Charles I that advocated abolishing all differences of position and rank.
Usage examples of leveller.
Except in her house, the diggers-up of old civilisations in Beluchistan never encountered the levellers of modern civilisation in London.
And the Great Leveller rode and continues to ride on the penalty of sin, forcing its retribution in the form of death on the acts of senseless execution and coldblooded murder.
I fear, are mere levellers, who, when they bad once got to work with their mattocks on this venerable edifice, would never stop until they had brought it to the ground, and perhaps buried themselves among the ruins.
The Levellers, as you will recall, sir, were a party with strong republican views in the Civil War.
I believe the Levellers as a body did not have a religious as opposed to a social or political unity, though I cannot think that any of them belonged to the Established Church.
Having nearly undone himself (and the Constitution) with the Bollman-Swartwout ruling, he ignored, as best he could, his own previous statement that anyone who had contributed to the levying of war against the United States was as guilty as the actual leveller of war, and addressed himself to quite a different issue.