dissolvent
Example Sentences
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Some of them preferred cementation; others sought the universal alkahest, or dissolvent; and some of them boasted the great efficacy of the essence of emery.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
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 Sir Valentine Chirol
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 Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
There are organizations which it affects like a dissolvent, there are others which it affects like wine.
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus
Yet few of these emancipated citizens of the world had permitted the dissolvent philosophy of the century to enter the very pith and fiber of their mental quality.
From Beginnings of the American People by William E. Dodd
