Disestablishment Definition

noun

The separation of church and state; the removal of a policy of having an official governing religion.

As evangelicals defect in one direction and traditionalists in the other, and disestablishment beckons with the reform of the House of Lords ... — The Times, October 21, 2009, Desperate bishops invited Rome to park its tanks on Archbishop’s lawn by Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent.
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Noun

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disestablishment
Plural:
disestablishments

Disestablishment Sentence Examples

  • Trench could do nothing to prevent the disestablishment of the Irish Church, though he resisted with dignity.

  • He had been a strong supporter of Irish Disestablishment, but he refused to follow Gladstone in accepting Home Rule.

  • In 1920, after the disestablishment of the Welsh Church, of which measure he had been one of the most active opponents, he was created Archbishop of Wales, and was enthroned by the Archbishop of Canterbury at St.

  • The relations of the state with the disestablished church since 1889 have been somewhat anomalous, the government having decided to continue during their lives the stipends of the church functionaries at the time of disestablishment.

  • The moral character of churchmen in Brazil has been severely criticized by many observers, and the ease with which disestablishment was effected is probably largely due to their failings.

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