disendow
verb (used with object)
to deprive (a church, school, etc.) of endowment.
disendowment
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a word derived from
disendow.
Example Sentences
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This is disendowment, and this is what is before us.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
Upon these grounds it is demanded that, with disestablishment, disendowment shall come.
From Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day by Alfred Farthing Robbins
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 R. W. (Richard William) Church
They treated a corporation, created for the propagation of certain opinions, a task in which it had conspicuously failed, as if it were a private person, and denounced disendowment as robbery.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease
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 Augustus Jessopp
