Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of depriving or divesting of an endowment or endowments.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.

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  • noun The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.

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Examples

  • The party to which he belonged had, as he knew, endeavoured to avoid the subject of the disendowment of the Church of England.

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • On that occasion his feelings had been strong in regard to the measure upon which he broke away from his party; but, when he first thought of it, he did not care much about Church disendowment.

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • Molescroft, who indeed preferred almost any other reform to disendowment.

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • Significant demands: commutation of servile dues, disendowment of the Church, abolition of game laws.

    1377-89 2001

  • His remedy, like that of Marsilius, was the forcible disendowment of the Church by the king and lay lords in order to restore it to its exclusively spiritual role.

    HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968

  • Lord John Russell, in alliance with O'Connell, proposed the disendowment of that Church and defeated

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • Virginia in securing step by step the abolition of everything that savoured of religious oppression, involving at last the disestablishment and the disendowment of the Episcopal Church, was due in part to the fact that

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • Disestablishment, which of course preceded disendowment, was in many respects a gain.

    Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

  • One of its first measures was the always-to-be-regretted one of the disendowment of the Irish Church.

    Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

  • Englishmen, that of the disestablishment and partial disendowment of a church.

    A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929

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