were disestablishing
- past progressive of disestablish.
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He realized the absurdity of the Irish Church as it then stood; but, true to his critical character, he rebuked the "Liberal Practitioners" for the spirit in which they were disestablishing and disendowing it.
From Matthew Arnold by Russell, George William Erskine
