disendowment
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The ceasing of endowment or endowments, especially said of the church.
Countable; Dated; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "We, the Irish Protestant clergy, are working very hard to uphold the dear old Church of England in Ireland; and, thank God, our efforts have been wonderfully blest since the disestablishment and disendowment 14 years ago."
- "He denied that the disendowment of the Irish Church would be dangerous to the English Establishment"