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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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 J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans
Perhaps we may venture to prophesy that the disendowment of the national church will supply the next illustration on an imposing scale.
From On Compromise by John Morley
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
But, as in that case, generosity should characterize legislation; disendowment should be clearly limited to tithes.
From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by George William Erskine Russell
For the extreme Lollards, of whom he was one, looked upon the two political acts which we have learned to call disestablishment and disendowment, as not only permissible, but desirable.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
