Meaning of disestablishment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The downgrading or dissolution of something that had been established.
   countable, uncountable
2. Specifically, the removal of state privileges or patronage from a given church; the removal of a policy of having an official governing religion.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Disestablishment of the church would deprive the gentry of another property right – the right of presentation to a living, a right for which they or their ancestors had paid hard cash and which gave them useful opportunities of providing for a younger son or a poor relation.”

“As evangelicals defect in one direction and traditionalists in the other, and disestablishment beckons with the reform of the House of Lords […].”

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