dissolvent
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Subsequently, under the dissolvent influences of Versailles and through ridicule’s more annihilating might, though manners persisted morals did not.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
The Reformation," according to H. A. L. Fisher, "was the great dissolvent of European conservatism.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
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 Edward Clodd
By saying this I do not mean to maintain, of course, that private property was not existent, that it was not breaking through the communal system, and acting as a dissolvent of it.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
As in the case of Hume's metaphysical studies, they constitute the most powerful dissolvent the century was to see.
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski
