dissolvent

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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

Frederick the Great’s base tolerance produced dissolvent effects.

From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles

I would not advise, however, the use of aqua-regia, the infallible dissolvent of gold, because it would disorganize the leather.

From Book Repair and Restoration by Buck, Mitchell

The organism of both tongues may be destroyed, but the dissolvent force is also an organic and vital one, and from the ruins of both constructs a speech of grander plans and with wider views.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

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