dissolvent

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton

This it is that most shakes our vital desire and most intensifies the dissolvent efficacy of reason.

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

The subjects are chosen almost at random, and are very frequently nothing but pegs on which to hang notes and digressions in which the author indulges his critical and dissolvent faculty.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

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