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Solvent

noun

A liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances. Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent.

A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem. Synonyms: answer, resolution, result, solution. "The answers were in the back of the book" , "He computed the result to four decimal places"

adjective

Capable of meeting financial obligations.

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"Solvent" Quotes from Famous Books

... the sacred theory with the Deluge of Noah as a universal solvent for geological difficulties was evidently dying, there still remained in various quarters a touching fidelity to it. In Roman Catholic countries the old theory was widely though quietly cherished, and taught from the religious press, the pulpit, and the theological ...

— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... of self-respect. But it is rather by his comedies than by his farces that Mr. Shaw should be judged. If they are not popular, it is for a very good reason: Mr. Shaw's humour is too serious. His humour is a strong solvent, and one of the many things about which this humorist is in deadly earnest is the fetish worship of tradition. To that he persists in applying—in Candida as in half a dozen other plays—the ordeal by laughter—an ordeal which every human institution is bound to face. ...

— Irish Books and Irish People • Stephen Gwynn

... He was temperate in his meals and diversions, but always kept a little on this side of abstemiousness. Only in the use of the Indian weed he might be thought a little excessive. He took it, he would say, as a solvent of speech. Marry—as the friendly vapour ascended, how his prattle would curl up sometimes with it! the ligaments, which tongue-tied him, were loosened, and ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... Napoleon from its mintage, Or glorious as a diamond richly set; A page where Time should hesitate to print age, And for which Nature might forego her debt— Sole creditor whose process doth involve in 't The luck of finding every body solvent. ...

— Don Juan • Lord Byron

... out his special affinities in this way, there is an end of his genius as a real solvent. No more effervescence and hissing tumult—as he pours his sharp thought on the world's biting alkaline unbeliefs! No more corrosion of the old monumental tablets covered with lies! No more taking up of dull earths, ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

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