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Definition of Disendows
1. disendow [v] - See also: disendow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disendows
Literary usage of Disendows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1901)
"... and disendows a hierarchy. In Switzerland it resists the whole power of the
Papacy. In Italy it seizes the sacred territory and plants itself within the ..."
2. The Anglo-Saxon Review by Randolph Spencer Churchill (1900)
"The caprice with which heredity alternately endows and disendows is one of the
mysteries that confront us in a group of family portraits. ..."
3. Memoirs of an Ex-minister: An Autobiography by James Howard Harris Malmesbury (1885)
"... and remained by the body. March 2nd.—Gladstone introduced his Irish Church
Bill yesterday in a speech of three hours. It disendows as well as ..."
4. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1878)
"... and disendows itself, as undoubtedly it will, the consequence will most
certainly be that the Church of England will re-absorb the nation, ..."
5. The Divina Commedia of Dante by Dante Alighieri (1870)
"That, which man disendows, is sin alone : This mars his likeness to the Good
Supreme, Whose light most pure he will not make his own. ..."
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