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Leveller
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- 1 comparative form of level: more level UK, comparative, form-of
- 1 A person or thing that levels. UK
"I adjusted the leveller built into each leg of the table, but it still wobbled."
- 2 a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions wordnet
- 3 Something that transcends people’s differences (such as social class, wealth, etc.); something that tends to eliminate advantages and disadvantages. UK
"Conversation is not to be met with in large and mixed companies; and a card-table, considered as an universal leveller, may have its use, by placing the weak and timid on a par with the most lively and overbearing."
- 4 A person holding a political opinion in favor of eliminating disparities between the haves and the have-nots. UK
"Among the independents, who, in general, were for having no eccleſiaſtical ſubordination, a ſet of men grew up called Levellers, who diſallowed all ſubordination whatſoever, and declared that they would have no other chaplain, king, or general, but Chriſt. They declared that all men were equal; that all degrees and ranks should be levelled, and an exact partition of property eſtabliſhed in the nation."
- 5 An equaliser. UK
"Cardiff pressed for a leveller to force the tie into penalties, but Stoke comfortably held out and Walters added his second finishing from a tight angle after his first shot was beaten back to him by Heaton."
Etymology
From level + -er.
From level + -er.
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