disestablishment
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“The whole point of the disestablishment of religion in the first place is being lost in the fog of this crisis,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2020
At the very least, voluntary associations won the hearts of critics like Lyman Beecher and reconciled them to religious disestablishment.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
It was a gift from the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1920 when, at its disestablishment, the Church in Wales became a separate province of the Anglican Communion.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2017
Exactly the opposite happened, and it was only with the disestablishment of state religion that you had this great explosion of religious devotion.
From Washington Times ● May 2, 2017
I have yet to form my cabinet. cantelupe. You are forming it to carry disestablishment, are you not, Cyril?
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Granville-Barker, Harley
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