dissolvent

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No more powerful dissolvent for the self-complacency of humanity was ever composed.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton

Take any of the dogmatic systems that have resulted from the latest Protestant dissolvent analysis—that of Kaftan, the follower of Ritschl, for example—and note the extent to which eschatology is reduced.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

The Reformation," according to H. A. L. Fisher, "was the great dissolvent of European conservatism.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

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

Subsequently, under the dissolvent influences of Versailles and through ridicule’s more annihilating might, though manners persisted morals did not.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar