disendowment

plural disendowments

1. countabledateduncountableThe ceasing of endowment or endowments, especially said of the church.

   He denied that the disendowment of the Irish Church would be dangerous to the English Establishment

   1880, George Barnett Smith, The Life of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone

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   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.

   1886, Gerald Slade, Spare Minutes