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 Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee

Well, I call him something a great deal worse—an unworthy skulk, a lunatic, a subverter of rank, and a Radical!

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

“I see a thousand builders unequal to one subverter; what then of the one builder who is followed by a thousand subverters?”

From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá

To his revengeful but astute mind it was clear that if he could not be an official he might be the enemy of the Government and its possible subverter.

From The Life of Gordon, Volume I by Boulger, Demetrius Charles