subverter

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Queen Victoria was "deeply shocked" by the high-level attention paid to this subverter of established order.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by Selby-Bigge, L. A.

At the moment when thy dearest hopes had budded afresh, when the clouds of insecurity and disquiet had retired from thy vision, wast thou assailed by the great subverter of human schemes.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

To his revengeful but astute mind it was clear that if he could not be an official he might be the enemy of the Government and its possible subverter.

From The Life of Gordon, Volume I by Boulger, Demetrius Charles

If you discover new truths you will certainly be called a subverter of old ones.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason