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

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.

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

From Long Live the King! by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

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.

As a subverter of public morals, however, the palm belongs, not to Yoshimitsu, but to his immediate successor, Yoshimochi.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)