dissolvent

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Frederick the Great’s base tolerance produced dissolvent effects.

From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles

Very seldom a disease is met with, that is permitted to run its course without dissolvent or cathartic means.

From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.

If dissolvent ideas do make their way, it is because the society was already ripe for dissolution.

From On Compromise by Morley, John

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

This striking pair were the two complements of a single noble and solid type, holding tenaciously, in a century of dissolvent speculation, to the best ideas of a society that was slowly passing.

From Burke by Morley, John