• Disestablishment

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /dɪs.ɪsˈtæblɪʃ.mÉ™nt/

    Full definition of disestablishment

    Noun

    disestablishment

    (plural disestablishments)
    1. The separation of church and state; the removal of a policy of having an official governing religion.As evangelicals defect in one direction and traditionalists in the other, and disestablishment beckons with the reform of the House of Lords ... — The Times, October 21, 2009, Desperate bishops invited Rome to park its tanks on Archbishop’s lawn by Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent
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