Definition of "disendowment" []

• The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. (noun)

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• "The party to which he belonged had, as he knew, endeavoured to avoid the subject of the disendowment of the Church of England."
• "Molescroft, who indeed preferred almost any other reform to disendowment."
• "On that occasion his feelings had been strong in regard to the measure upon which he broke away from his party; but, when he first thought of it, he did not care much about Church disendowment."