subverter

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Queen Victoria was "deeply shocked" by the high-level attention paid to this subverter of established order.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by Selby-Bigge, L. A.

If you discover new truths you will certainly be called a subverter of old ones.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

Such was the reputation which the vanquished magnates in general, and their followers, endeavored to fix upon the young subverter of their ascendency.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

He was denounced by priest and publican as a subverter of morals.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James