disendowment
disendowment noun: the ceasing of endowment or endowments, especially said of the church.
Noun
disendowment (countable and uncountable, plural disendowments)
- The ceasing of endowment or endowments, especially said of the church.
- 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.1886, Gerald Slade, Spare Minutes
- He denied that the disendowment of the Irish Church would be dangerous to the English Establishment1880, George Barnett Smith, The Life of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone
Forms of disendowment
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Origin of disendowment
From dis- + endowment.
Questions about disendowment
- What does disendowment mean?
- Disendowment means the ceasing of endowment or endowments, especially said of the church.
- What part of speech is disendowment?
- Disendowment is a noun.
- What is the plural of disendowment?
- The plural of disendowment is disendowments.
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