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Definition of Levellers
1. leveller [n] - See also: leveller
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levellers
Literary usage of Levellers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"l Such a proposal might attract fanatics ; it could not attract the multitude.
The levellers who stood up for an exaggera- Princi les tion ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"levellers» the name given to an important political party in England during the
period of the ... levellers, for they intend to sett all things straight, ..."
3. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1894)
"The levellers who stood up levellers, for an exaggeration of the doctrine of
Parliamentary supremacy were likely to be far more numerous. ..."
4. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century by Leopold von Ranke (1875)
"THE levellers. xi. i. AD 1649. It was asserted at the time that the troops who
were united in this view entertained the fixed purpose and hope of occupying ..."
5. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ...: With Original Anecdotes of by Lucy Hutchinson, John Hutchinson (1846)
"Reader, let me admonish thee that the levellers, for so they are miscalled, ...
The principles held by that party of the levellers which he supported, ..."
6. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham by Lucy Apsley Hutchinson, Julius Hutchinson, Charles Harding Firth (1885)
"... him what thought his friends, the levellers,2 had of him. The colonel, 1
Pembroke surrendered on July nth. Cromwell arrived at Nottingham on August 3d. ..."
7. History of the Christian Philosophy of Religion from the Reformation to Kant by Bernhard Pünjer (1887)
"In politics and in philosophy Deism also found the way prepared for it: in
politics, by the doctrines of the levellers; and in philosophy, by Francis Bacon. ..."
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