The Only Use of
subversion
in
Animal Farm
- For a long time there had been rumors — circulated, he had reason to think, by some malignant enemy — that there was something subversive and even revolutionary in the outlook of himself and his colleagues.†
p. 139.3subversive = a person who works from within to destroy an established order; or relating to such destructive efforts
Definition:
gradual destruction (of something previously established) -- such as a government, rule, or belief