subverter

Example Sentences

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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

But if any of them showed any mildness, or seemed a favourer of truth, against him, as the subverter of Britain, were all their malice and their weapons bent.

From Old English Chronicles by Various

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.

Well, I call him something a great deal worse—an unworthy skulk, a lunatic, a subverter of rank, and a Radical!

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

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