Definition of "leveler" []

• One that levels: a leveler of boards. (noun)
• One who advocates the abolition of social inequities. (noun)
• 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. (noun)

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• "Three of the officers were of Cromwell's party; the fourth, Captain Zachariah Scarborough, was a "leveler" -- a hater of kings, a Dutch-bred pioneer of Dutch-bred democracy."
• "Captain Zachariah Scarborough, was a "leveler" -- a hater of kings, a"
• "Receiving hospice care seems to be a "leveler" for blacks, says Lauren Harris-Kojetin, one of the study's authors."