disestablishmentn.
The act of disestablishing.
a. gen.
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society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [noun]
off-puttinga1387
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1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 264 From the establishment of Christianity under Constantine, to the beginnings of its disestablishment under Pope Leo X.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Feb. 6/1 The position of the railways would justify the disestablishment of a railway guarantee fund.
b. spec. The withdrawal of especial State patronage and control from a church.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > establishmentarianism > [noun] > making > removal of
disestablishment1860
disestablishmentarianism1894
1860 Sat. Rev. 9 305/1 When the disestablishment grows nearer, the Church will cease to be recruited from the ranks of intelligence and education.
1883 Manch. Examiner 24 Oct. 5/1 They believe that religion, and justice, and citizenship would gain by Disestablishment.
Derivatives
diseˌstablishmenˈtarian n. an adherent of disestablishment (also attributive or adj. ).
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > establishmentarianism > [noun] > making > removal of > supporter of
liberationist1861
disestablisher1869
disestablishmentarian1885
1885 Times 4 Dec. 3/4 I have just recorded my vote against the disestablishmentarian.
1885 Guardian 2 Dec. 1815/1 The 480 Disestablishmentarian candidates have considerably dwindled through explanations and rejections.
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diseˌstablishmenˈtarianism n. advocacy of disestablishment.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > establishmentarianism > [noun] > making > removal of
disestablishment1860
disestablishmentarianism1894
1894 Sir E. Ashmead-Bartlett in N. Amer. Rev. June 676 In that stronghold of Radicalism and disestablishmentarianism [sc. Wales] the Separatist majority was reduced from 815 to 225.
1915 Ice Cream Trade Jrnl. Sept. 46/1 I'm a constructionist, not a destructionist. I never did believe in disestablishmentarianism.
1966 Michigan Business Rev. Nov. 21/2 How can our strategy for progress deal with this bias against change on the part of the Establishment—this need for, in the secular sense, continuing disestablishmentarianism?
2012 J. Berlinerblau How to be Secular xii. 200 There are good reasons for staking the future of secularism on disestablishmentarianism.
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