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What is a disendowment?

What is a disendowment? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
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The accompanying disendowment of church funds provided substantial sums for the relief of Irish poverty.
Both questioned the value of indulgences and pilgrimages, promoted the use of the vernacular in preaching, attacked clerical corruption, and even advocated disendowment.
The disendowment of hospitals was even more injurious to the poor.
During the next decade, Lloyd George campaigned in Parliament largely on Welsh issues and in particular for disestablishment and disendowment of the Church of England.
But these were the one-off fruits of the disendowment of the Church, a windfall which was unrepeatable on the same scale.
Lollards got caught for challenging eucharistic teaching and calling for disendowment.

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