A liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances.
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Your cocksure, peering Protestant is the dissolvent-theforce making for ruin.
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But Césarine was, like her aunt, a born dissolvent of society's vital elements.
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Drink water by pailfuls; it is a universal dissolvent; water liquefies all the salts.
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Therefore love is a dissolvent: therefore it is a corruptive and a wounding passion.
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This constitutes a gilding dissolvent now in our market.
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Aubrey speaks of May dew as "a great dissolvent" ("Miscellanies," p.
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He, however, was to learn that there is no greater dissolvent of rancor than intelligent curiosity.
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Equality, as a phrase, having done duty as a dissolvent, was pressed into service as a constructor.
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The stomach has a dissolvent that causes hunger, and puts man in mind of his want of food.
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As was unavoidable, the secret treaty of December acted as an immediate dissolvent to the truce of February.
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May-Dew is a great dissolvent.
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The flesh is white, delicate, partly translucent, easy for our stomachs to digest and no less suited to the grub's dissolvent.
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The Italian kingdom is the fruit of the alliance between the strong monarchical principles of Piedmont and the dissolvent forces of revolution.
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If to some men misery is a tonic, on others it acts as a dissolvent; and the count was of the latter.
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Their dissolvent, comparable in its effects with the gastric juice of the higher animals, is, beyond a doubt, emitted through the mouth.
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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.