evenizer
English
Noun
evenizer (plural evenizers)
- (rare) Something that makes things even.
- 1923, R. M. Washburn, Smith’s Barn: “A Child’s History” of the West Side, Worcester, 1880-1923, Worcester, Massachussets, Chapter 4, p. 39,
- 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.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 15, p. 79,
- 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 […]
- 1923, R. M. Washburn, Smith’s Barn: “A Child’s History” of the West Side, Worcester, 1880-1923, Worcester, Massachussets, Chapter 4, p. 39,