disendowment
English
Noun
disendowment (countable and uncountable, plural disendowments)
- (dated) The ceasing of endowment or endowments, especially said of the church.
- 1886, Gerald Slade, Spare Minutes:
- 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.
- 1880, George Barnett Smith, The Life of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone:
- He denied that the disendowment of the Irish Church would be dangerous to the English Establishment
References
- “disendowment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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