dissolvent

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

From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre

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 Dodd, William E.

In spite of these fine arguments, at the end of a week a looseness ensued, with some twinges, which I was blasphemous enough to saddle on the universal dissolvent and the new-fangled diet.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

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 Mackay, Charles

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