evenizer

plural evenizers

1. rareSomething 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

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   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