evenizer

English

Noun

evenizer (plural evenizers)

1. (rare) Something that makes things even.
   • 1923, R. M. Washburn, chapter 4, in Smith’s Barn: “A Child’s History” of the West Side, Worcester, 1880-1923‎^[1], Worcester, Massachussets, page 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, chapter 15, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎^[2], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 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 […]