dissolvent
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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 William Savage Johnson
The French Revolution, which extinguished feudalism as a system and the nobility as a privileged class, speedily ceased to be a mere dissolvent.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
Take any of the dogmatic systems that have resulted from the latest Protestant dissolvent analysis—that of Kaftan, the follower of Ritschl, for example—and note the extent to which eschatology is reduced.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
If dissolvent ideas do make their way, it is because the society was already ripe for dissolution.
From On Compromise by John Morley
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 C. W. Wolf
