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- verb Present participle of
disendow .
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Examples
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They might begin the work of encouragement by disestablishing and disendowing art; by withdrawing doles from art schools, and confiscating the moneys misused by the Royal Academy.
Art Clive Bell 1922
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Commencing with the Church, he introduced a Bill disendowing and disestablishing it.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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“Liberal Practitioners” for the spirit in which they were disestablishing and disendowing it.
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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The Liberal Party was just then busy disestablishing and disendowing the Irish Church.
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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Liberal Party was just then busy disestablishing and disendowing the
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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"Liberal Practitioners" for the spirit in which they were disestablishing and disendowing it.
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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Liberals or Conservatives, or even Nonconformists; and without this end there is no more justice in disendowing a great religious corporation like the Church, than in disendowing the Duke of Bedford or the Duke of
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 1852
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