The act of removing or withdrawing an endowment; the state of being deprived of endowed funds.
Noun formed from 'disendow' plus '-ment' suffix. It parallels 'endowment' but refers to the reversal or removal of such support.
The 'disendowment of monasteries' in 16th-century England under Henry VIII fundamentally restructured that entire country—monasteries had been wealthy landowners, and suddenly they weren't.
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