disestablishment

disestablishment
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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  • Disestablishment — Dis es*tab lish*ment, n. 1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • disestablishment — index annulment, defeasance, subversion Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Disestablishment — Dis|es|ta|blish|ment* [...is tæbliʃmənt] das; s <aus gleichbed. engl. disestablishment zu dis (vgl. ↑dis...) u. establishment, vgl. ↑Establishment> Entstaatlichung (der Kirche) …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • disestablishment — disestablish ► VERB ▪ deprive (an organization, especially a national Church) of its official status. DERIVATIVES disestablishment noun …   English terms dictionary

  • disestablishment — noun see disestablish …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • disestablishment — See disestablish. * * * …   Universalium

  • disestablishment — dis·es·tab·lish·ment || ‚dɪsɪ stæblɪʃmÉ™nt n. cancelling, abolishing; removal of state recognition of the church …   English contemporary dictionary

  • disestablishment — n. 1. (Rare.) Abolition, annulment, discontinuance, abrogation, overthrow, subversion, destruction, annihilation, extinction. 2. Deprivation of public support, stripping of State authority, abolition as a State institution …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • disestablishment — dis·establishment …   English syllables

  • disestablishment — See: disestablish …   English dictionary

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