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disendowment

noun

Etymology

From dis- + endowment.

  1. inherited from endowement
  2. prefixed as disendowment — “dis + endowment”

Definitions

  1. The ceasing of endowment or endowments, especially said of the church.

    • We, the Irish Protestant clergy, are working very hard to uphold the dear old Church of England in Ireland; and, thank God, our efforts have been wonderfully blest since the disestablishment and disendowment 14 years ago.
    • He denied that the disendowment of the Irish Church would be dangerous to the English Establishment

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA