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

None, that is, until the riding-hour came, and Nikky, subverter of all discipline.

From Long Live the King! by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

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

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.

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.