Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of depriving, or the condition of being deprived, of the position and privileges of an established body; especially, the act of withdrawing a church from a privileged relation to the state: as, the disestablishment of the Irish Church by Parliament in 1869.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church.
- noun The condition of being disestablished.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
separation ofchurch andstate ; the removal of a policy of having an official governingreligion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act terminating an established state of affairs; especially ending a connection with the Church of England
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Examples
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All of the five possible legal solutions to the issue of same-sex couples — redefinition of marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships, federal marriage amendment, and what I am calling disestablishment — strike me as seriously flawed and likely to be harmful to children.
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Since the restoration, and what may be called the disestablishment of Buddhism, the shrine of Iyeyasu has been shorn of all its glories of ritual and its magnificent Buddhist paraphernalia; the 200 priests who gave it splendour are scattered, and six Shinto priests alternately attend upon it as much for the purpose of selling tickets of admission as for any priestly duties.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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All of the five possible legal solutions to the issue of same-sex couples — redefinition of marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships, federal marriage amendment, and what I am calling disestablishment — strike me as seriously flawed and likely to be harmful to children.
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That idea was consistently rejected, and, stranger still, the idea of disestablishment and separation was almost unperceived.
Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868
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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.
The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"disestablishment" - a distinction all the more significant because the Constitution's Religion Clauses do not mandate the separate of church and state, but they forbid the
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Daniel1212 2010
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"disestablishment" - a distinction all the more significant because the Constitution's Religion Clauses do not mandate the separate of church and state, but they forbid the
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Daniel1212 2010
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"disestablishment" - a distinction all the more significant because the Constitution's Religion Clauses do not mandate the separate of church and state, but they forbid the
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Daniel1212 2010
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"disestablishment" - a distinction all the more significant because the Constitution's Religion Clauses do not mandate the separate of church and state, but they forbid the
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Daniel1212 2010
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"disestablishment" - a distinction all the more significant because the Constitution's Religion Clauses do not mandate the separate of church and state, but they forbid the
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Daniel1212 2010
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