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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In this way the Assembly began the disendowment of the Church, which was the primitive cause of the Reign of Terror and the Civil War.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
Until the period of disendowment, the Buddhist clergy remained, throughout the country, public as well as religious officials.
From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn
Lord John Russell, in alliance with O'Connell, proposed the disendowment of that Church and defeated Peel by thirty-three votes.
From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore
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
Lord Russell had followed up his first letter to Mr. Chichester Fortescue by two more letters, in which he again advocated both the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church.
From Lady John Russell by
