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

He was the agitator, the destroyer of prescription, the internal improver, the liberal, the radical, the inventor of means, the opener of doors and markets, the subverter of monopoly and abuse.

From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I am not a subverter, nor a communist, nor a man of blood, nor a hater, nor intolerant, nor exclusive adorer of a system, or of a form imagined by my mind.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.

If you discover new truths you will certainly be called a subverter of old ones.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

But if any of them showed any mildness, or seemed a favourer of truth, against him, as the subverter of Britain, were all their malice and their weapons bent.

From Old English Chronicles by Various