dissolvent
Example Sentences
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This it is that most shakes our vital desire and most intensifies the dissolvent efficacy of reason.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
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 Vinogradoff, Paul
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
It acts upon the frame of an antique society as a powerful dissolvent, heating weak brains, stimulating rash ambitions, raising inordinate expectations of which the disappointment is bitterly resented.
From Indian Unrest by Chirol, Valentine, Sir
The Reformation," according to H. A. L. Fisher, "was the great dissolvent of European conservatism.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
