disestablishment
1
8.7
- noun
- /ˌdɪsɪsˈtæblɪʃmənt/
- Formal
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desestablecimiento
- The disestablishment of the church from state authority in the 19th century was a significant step towards religious freedom.
- disestablishment at the state
And if you're calling for Israel's disestablishment, which would mean by fire and the storm?
- And if you're calling for Israel's disestablishment, which would mean by fire and the storm?
Examples
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Disestablishment did not make the churches' role in the formation of public character any less important; quite the contrary, disestablishment assumed the importance of religion and left it free of government control.
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During and after the Revolution, Pendleton would lead the fight against disestablishment.
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In fact, the arguments for free exercise and disestablishment arose from many of the same sources as the arguments for economic freedom.
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For years dissenters lobbied against the Church for disestablishment.
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The grand underlying theme of disestablishment, like freedom of the press, was the notion that the state should not control the instruments for the formation of character and opinion.
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There were many reasons for disestablishment, not least among them the growing realization that governmental involvement was bad for religion.
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The First Amendment at the national level, like disestablishment at the state level, was intended to prevent the government from exercising control over religion, which was seen as a particularly important and valuable institution for the formation of public character and opinion in a republic.
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They called for a nation-state, for representational government, for the disestablishment of religion, and for constitutional rights.
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The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and the various disestablishments at the state level are said to be the legal embodiment of that movement toward the secularization of our public culture.
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The movement toward complete disestablishment of religion in all of the states was a slow, gradual, multifaceted process that involved Congress, the Office of the President, the Supreme Court, and state legislatures and continued until the mid-twentieth century.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
3
5.5
Ending a system by law or official action
The ending of a town's or company's official status so it no longer exists as a legal body
Antonyms
How Established
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3.8
- Formal
50
2.8
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6.0
- Formal
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8.7
- Formal
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4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
disestablishment = disestablish (transparent) = dis + establish + ment
This is a regular noun formation from the verb 'disestablish', meaning the act or process of disestablishing.
Etymology
Disestablishment comes from the parts dis- meaning 'not' or 'undo' and establish meaning 'to set up'. So, disestablishment is the act of undoing an official set-up, for example ending a church's special role with the state.