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leveler

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lev·el·er also lev·el·ler  (lv-lr)
n.
1. One that levels: a leveler of boards.
2.
a. One who advocates the abolition of social inequities.
b. Leveller A member of an English radical political movement arising in the Parliamentarian forces of the 1640s and advocating universal male suffrage, equality before the law, parliamentary democracy, and religious tolerance.
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Noun1.leveler - a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions
leveller
radical - a person who has radical ideas or opinions


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" I says; "your head gets leveler and leveler all the time, Tom Sawyer," I says.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
In the face of hunger, the great leveler, he was as the old, the toothless, and the decrepit.
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Before very long--so soothing is the influence of an after-dinner view of feudal antiquities, taken through the medium of an approving conscience--Lady Lundie's eyes closed; and from Lady Lundie's nose there poured, at intervals, a sound, deep like her ladyship's learning; regular, like her ladyship's habits--a sound associated with nightcaps and bedrooms, evoked alike by Nature, the leveler, from high and low--the sound (oh, Truth what enormities find publicity in thy name
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