Disendow

Word DISENDOW
Character 8
Hyphenation dis en dow
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Disendow"

What do we mean by disendow?

To deprive of financial endowment. transitive verb

To deprive of an endowment or of endowments, as a church or other institution.

To deprive of an endowment, as a church. transitive verb

To deprive of an endowment. verb

To deprive of an endowment.

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The word "disendow" in example sentences

The robber in this case is the Government, which proposes to disendow, as well as disestablish, the Church in ❋ Samuel McChord Crothers (N/A)

Shall we disestablish and disendow the Church of England? ❋ Carnegie Library Of Pittsburgh (N/A)

Ṭihrán, been returned to their owners, despite the protests of a relentless and powerful clergy, the agitation of a hostile population, and the importunate demands made by prominent members of the Legislature to outlaw and disendow the Faith, confiscate its literature, raze to the ground its principal edifices, deport its chief supporters, and root it out of the provinces. ❋ 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi (1927)

Anti-clerical knights of the shire who wished to disendow the Church, riotous tenants of an unpopular abbey, parishioners who refused to pay their tithes, would often be called ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Meanwhile it is referred to only because its consideration shows us some sort of excuse, if not warrant, for the higher education of woman, even though in the process of thus endowing her with economic independence, we disendow her of her distinctive womanhood, or at the very least imperil it; even though, more serious still, we deprive the race of her services as physical and psychical mother. ❋ Unknown (1909)

We were to disestablish and disendow the Irish Church, reform the Irish system of land-tenure, and reconstruct the Irish Universities. ❋ Russell, G W E (1904)

"Oh!" said the Dean; "you may tell him I don't mind his disestablishing me again; for he didn't disendow me; he didn't confiscate my ticket!" ❋ William Henry Hurlbert (1861)

Nonconformists make the strength of the Liberal majority in the House of Commons, and that, therefore, the leading Liberal statesmen, to get the support of the Nonconformists, forsake the notion of fairly apportioning Church property in Ireland among the chief religious communions, declare that the national mind has decided against new endowments, and propose simply to disestablish and disendow the present establishment in Ireland without establishing or endowing any other. ❋ Matthew Arnold (1855)

Remember that we hold the English tongue in trust -- it belongs to the nation and not to us -- and we have no more right to profane England's language by the introduction of coined words and slang expressions than we have to disendow her institutions or to pollute her rivers. " ❋ Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1894)

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