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Definition of leveller in English: leveller(US leveler) noun ˈlɛv(ə)ləˈlɛv(ə)lər 1A person or thing that levels something. 平整（某物）的人，平整用的工具 - 1.1 A situation or activity in which distinctions of class, age, or ability are immaterial.
（阶级、年龄或能力差别不起作用的）平等情况（或活动） he valued the sport because it was a great leveller 他很重视这项运动，因为大家都能平等参与。 Example sentencesExamples - Ingenuity counts for as much as spending power and six hours is a great leveller.
- It's the great leveler, the only thing that breaks through the class barriers and makes us equal.
- The myth of the draft as a class leveller comes from WWII, where it was only true for about six months.
- Sport is one of life's great levellers and it is the source of many a heartening tale.
- The lesson is that the Internet is going to be the great leveler.
2A member of a group of radical dissenters in the English Civil War (1642–9) who called for the abolition of the monarchy, social and agrarian reforms, and religious freedom. 平均主义者，平等主义者（1642-1649年英国内战时期主张废除君主制度，要求社会和土地改革，鼓吹宗教自由的极端激进的反对派） Example sentencesExamples - When one considers the legitimacy of Parliament, it's ironic that it has largely come about through extra-parliamentary action: the Levellers, the Chartists, the suffragettes, etc.
- Putney offers a tempting target for ‘revisionism’ because of the pervasive association with the Levellers and with democratic and libertarian thought.
- Benn goes on to say that the founders of the socialist tradition in England were the radical Christian dissenters of the English Revolution (the Levelers and Diggers) who resisted the privatization of communally owned village land.
- He relates himself to Milton and the puritan revolution, and the Levellers, and Thomas Paine.
- This dissenting tradition reached its zenith during in the English Revolution of the 1640's where the Levellers played a major role in Cromwell's New Model Army, advocating very radical ideas.
- Waldron recognises Locke's debt to the most plebeian elements of the English revolution and thinks that he is closer to the Levellers than is often supposed.
- By December 1648 the Levellers dominated London, keeping the more moderate members away by force and threat of force.
- Dissent was a complex religious and intellectual tradition that owes its origins, in part, to the radical elements of the English Civil War such as the Levellers, who argued for greater equality.
- They elected ‘agitators’ to express their views and radical groups like the Levellers gained huge support within the army.
- The Levellers, the strongest of the radical groups, demanded an end to King, Lords and Commons, and rule by Parliament.
- He starts with the famous debates that took place in Putney Church in 1647 between the Cromwellian grandees and the radical Levellers.
- In England there were leaders like Oliver Cromwell with his New Model Army and radical groups like the Levellers.
- Among his political collaborators were artisans, Levellers, former Cromwellian soldiers and republicans.
- This one was associated with various mill owners apparently although many were also part of the series of leftist political grouplets descended from the Levellers and others during the English Civil War.
- The Levellers developed from a demand for individual freedom of conscience, to demand a comparable political liberty for the individual.
- The Levellers broke down organs in churches during the English 17th-century Civil War.
- These uprisings were ruthlessly suppressed, as were the Levellers in England after the Civil War.
- To gain support for regicide, the Levellers compromised the universality of the commons.
- The Levellers wanted all free-born Englishmen to sign a social contract, an Agreement of the People, and to enjoy full rights of participation in a decentralized, democratic state.
- It is true that some former Levellers retreated into religious passivity, internalising their revolutionary ideology and seeking a godly republic within.
Definition of leveler in US English: leveler(British leveller) nounˈlɛv(ə)lərˈlev(ə)lər 1A person or thing that levels something. 平整（某物）的人，平整用的工具 2A member of a group of radical dissenters in the English Civil War (1642–9) who called for the abolition of the monarchy, social and agrarian reforms, and religious freedom. 平均主义者，平等主义者（1642-1649年英国内战时期主张废除君主制度，要求社会和土地改革，鼓吹宗教自由的极端激进的反对派） Example sentencesExamples - To gain support for regicide, the Levellers compromised the universality of the commons.
- When one considers the legitimacy of Parliament, it's ironic that it has largely come about through extra-parliamentary action: the Levellers, the Chartists, the suffragettes, etc.
- By December 1648 the Levellers dominated London, keeping the more moderate members away by force and threat of force.
- The Levellers developed from a demand for individual freedom of conscience, to demand a comparable political liberty for the individual.
- The Levellers broke down organs in churches during the English 17th-century Civil War.
- They elected ‘agitators’ to express their views and radical groups like the Levellers gained huge support within the army.
- Waldron recognises Locke's debt to the most plebeian elements of the English revolution and thinks that he is closer to the Levellers than is often supposed.
- It is true that some former Levellers retreated into religious passivity, internalising their revolutionary ideology and seeking a godly republic within.
- Benn goes on to say that the founders of the socialist tradition in England were the radical Christian dissenters of the English Revolution (the Levelers and Diggers) who resisted the privatization of communally owned village land.
- This one was associated with various mill owners apparently although many were also part of the series of leftist political grouplets descended from the Levellers and others during the English Civil War.
- Putney offers a tempting target for ‘revisionism’ because of the pervasive association with the Levellers and with democratic and libertarian thought.
- He relates himself to Milton and the puritan revolution, and the Levellers, and Thomas Paine.
- Dissent was a complex religious and intellectual tradition that owes its origins, in part, to the radical elements of the English Civil War such as the Levellers, who argued for greater equality.
- Among his political collaborators were artisans, Levellers, former Cromwellian soldiers and republicans.
- He starts with the famous debates that took place in Putney Church in 1647 between the Cromwellian grandees and the radical Levellers.
- This dissenting tradition reached its zenith during in the English Revolution of the 1640's where the Levellers played a major role in Cromwell's New Model Army, advocating very radical ideas.
- The Levellers wanted all free-born Englishmen to sign a social contract, an Agreement of the People, and to enjoy full rights of participation in a decentralized, democratic state.
- These uprisings were ruthlessly suppressed, as were the Levellers in England after the Civil War.
- In England there were leaders like Oliver Cromwell with his New Model Army and radical groups like the Levellers.
- The Levellers, the strongest of the radical groups, demanded an end to King, Lords and Commons, and rule by Parliament.
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