evenizer
evenizer noun: something that makes things even.
Noun
evenizer (plural evenizers)
- Something that makes things even.
- A father resents an ingrate son, forgetting that he too in his young days was an ingrate to a father now dead. Fate is not an unfair evenizer.1923, R. M. Washburn, chapter 4, in Smith’s Barn: “A Child’s History” of the West Side, Worcester, 1880-1923, Worcester, Massachusetts, page 39
- It was fortunate that I never saw her in the company of powhitefolks. For since they tend to think of their whiteness as an evenizer, I’m certain that I would have had to hear her spoken to commonly as Bertha […]1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 15, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 79
Forms of evenizer
| plural | evenizers |
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Questions about evenizer
- What does evenizer mean?
- Evenizer means something that makes things even.
- What part of speech is evenizer?
- Evenizer is a noun.
- What is the plural of evenizer?
- The plural of evenizer is evenizers.
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