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

“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

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.

He was denounced by priest and publican as a subverter of morals.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

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