dissolvent
Example Sentences
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If dissolvent ideas do make their way, it is because the society was already ripe for dissolution.
From On Compromise by Morley, John
No more powerful dissolvent for the self-complacency of humanity was ever composed.
From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton
By saying this I do not mean to maintain, of course, that private property was not existent, that it was not breaking through the communal system, and acting as a dissolvent of it.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
This striking pair were the two complements of a single noble and solid type, holding tenaciously, in a century of dissolvent speculation, to the best ideas of a society that was slowly passing.
From Burke by Morley, John
The dream was agonizing as he tried one dissolvent after another without success.
From Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Irvin, Rea
