disestablishment

plural disestablishments

1. countableuncountableThe downgrading or dissolution of something that had been established.

   Antonyms: establishment

   1. countableuncountableSpecifically, the removal of state privileges or patronage from a given church; 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 […].

      2009 October 21, Ruth Gledhill, The Times

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      Disestablishment of the church would deprive the gentry of another property right – the right of presentation to a living, a right for which they or their ancestors had paid hard cash and which gave them useful opportunities of providing for a younger son or a poor relation.

      1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 77

      Antonyms: establishment, establishment