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countable and uncountable, plural disestablishments
The taking apart or dissolution of something that had been established. examples
Specifically, the removal of state privileges or patronage from a given church; the removal of a policy of having an official governing religion. quotations examples
Disestablishment of the church would deprive the gentry of another property right – the right of presentation to a living, a right for which they or their ancestors had paid hard cash and which gave them useful opportunities of providing for a younger son or a poor relation.
1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 77
As evangelicals defect in one direction and traditionalists in the other, and disestablishment beckons with the reform of the House of Lords […].
2009 October 21, Ruth Gledhill, The Times