dissolvent
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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
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 John Morley
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
No more powerful dissolvent for the self-complacency of humanity was ever composed.
From Landmarks in French Literature by Giles Lytton Strachey
That dissolvent, which stimulates and pricks the stomach, does, by that very uneasiness, prepare for it a very lively pleasure, when its craving is satisfied by the aliments.
From The Existence of God by Henry Morley
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