dissolvent

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That science was Geology; a science destined, in its ultimate scope, to prove a far more powerful dissolvent of dogma than any of its compeers.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward

On the traditional conception of romantic love inherited from medieval days there can be no doubt that this influence has been highly dissolvent.

From The Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock

No more powerful dissolvent for the self-complacency of humanity was ever composed.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton

And how did Goethe, that grand dissolvent in his age when there were fewer of them than at present, proceed in his task of dissolution, of liberation of the modern European from the old routine?

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage

The Reformation," according to H. A. L. Fisher, "was the great dissolvent of European conservatism.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved