dissolvent

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The Italian kingdom is the fruit of the alliance between the strong monarchical principles of Piedmont and the dissolvent forces of revolution.

From The Liberation of Italy by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

There are organizations which it affects like a dissolvent, there are others which it affects like wine.

From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar

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

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

The subjects are chosen almost at random, and are very frequently nothing but pegs on which to hang notes and digressions in which the author indulges his critical and dissolvent faculty.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

Drink water by pailfuls: it is a universal dissolvent; water liquefies all the salts.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot