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Webster 1913 Edition


Disestablishment

Disˊes-tab′lish-ment

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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 Parliament
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2.
The condition of being disestablished.