Definition of Disendowments

1. Noun. (plural of disendowment) ¹

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Definition of Disendowments

1. disendowment [n] - See also: disendowment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disendowments

disenclosing
disencouragement
disencouragements
disencumber
disencumbered
disencumbering
disencumbers
disencumbrance
disencumbrances
disendow
disendowed
disendower
disendowers
disendowing
disendowment
disendowments (current term)
disendows
disenfranchise
disenfranchised
disenfranchises
disenfranchising
disengage
disengaged
disengagedness
disengagement
disengagements
disengager
disengagers

Literary usage of Disendowments

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"... the lesson "sic vos non vobis," taught by repeated disendowments, is hardly likely to encourage liberality for the future ; tho ecclesiastical bees may ..."

2. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1874)
"... 20 / 9 d • Studs, 5 in 11 a1 Insurance Law, 18 то 11 d Irish Appeals, 8 a 9 <• disendowments, 23 m 9 « Education Board, 2 j 9 4 Judicial Appointments, ..."

3. How to Work with the Microscope by Lionel Smith Beale (1880)
"... the philosophy of the past attribute them to exceptional mental defects and disendowments such as distinguished from most of their contemporaries, ..."

4. The Irish Quarterly Review (1856)
"... it regards the State, by means of indiscriminate endowments, you should accomplish it by means of impartial disendowments. (Loud cries of "Hear, hear. ..."

5. The approaching end of the age viewed in the light of history, prophecy and by Henry Grattan Guinness (1882)
"... truth and effort in the Protestant Church, and the consequent increase of missionary effort; the separations of Church and State, and the disendowments ..."

6. Reminiscences of Twelve Years' Residence in Tasmania and New South Wales by Thomas Atkins (1869)
"In regard to the operation of disendowments of ecclesiastical establishments of an exclusive character in Australia and in Canada, I will now mention the ..."

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