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
He was the arch-atheist, the materialist, the subverter of all that was held most dear by the reigning powers.
From The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks
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 R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
The first minister of the Prussian crown was closeted once—people say more than once, but that does not matter—with the ablest subverter of the modern fabric of society.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
He was the agitator, the destroyer of prescription, the internal improver, the liberal, the radical, the inventor of means, the opener of doors and markets, the subverter of monopoly and abuse.
From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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