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Webster 1913 Edition
Disestablishment
Disˊes-tab′lish-ment
,Noun.
1.
The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church;
as, the
. disestablishment
and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament2.
The condition of being disestablished.
Definition 2024
disestablishment
disestablishment
English
Noun
disestablishment (plural disestablishments)
- The separation of church and state; the removal of a policy of having an official governing religion.
- As evangelicals defect in one direction and traditionalists in the other, and disestablishment beckons with the reform of the House of Lords ... — The Times, October 21, 2009, Desperate bishops invited Rome to park its tanks on Archbishop’s lawn by Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent