disestablishment
Americannoun
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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
His personal friend and political leader, Mr. Gladstone, became Prime Minister in December of the same year, and his first legislative work was the disestablishment of the Irish Church.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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