dissolvent

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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

There are organizations which it affects like a dissolvent, there are others which it affects like wine.

From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar

But Césarine was, like her aunt, a born dissolvent of society's vital elements.

From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre

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 Dillon, Emile Joseph

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