disendowment
- a word derived from disendow.
Example Sentences
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The old monasteries had benefited to some extent from this disendowment of the secular clergy, the Augustinian canons, during the twelfth century, being the chief gainers by the pillage.
From The Coming of the Friars by Jessopp, Augustus
To be sure, it is a queer disendowment that sends off the parsons with five-eighths of the money in their pockets.’
From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
Consistently with his Liberal principles, Mr. Dalglish voted for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church in 1869.
From Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities by Jeans, J. Stephen (James Stephen)
With disendowment, in short, men would be paid according to their merits and not their family connections—according to their work and not their birth.
From Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day by Robbins, Alfred Farthing
Disestablishment has really come to mean, in the mouth of friends and foes, simple disendowment.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
