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

I am not a subverter, nor a communist, nor a man of blood, nor a hater, nor intolerant, nor exclusive adorer of a system, or of a form imagined by my mind.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.

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

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

This Royal Commissioner reported that he was in danger of his life, and that the authorities resolved to prosecute him as a subverter of their government.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

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.