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n. The separation of church and state; the removal of a policy of having an official governing religion.

n. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church.

n. The condition of being disestablished.

n. The act of depriving, or the condition of being deprived, of the position and privileges of an established body; especially, the act of withdrawing a church from a privileged relation to the state: as, the disestablishment of the Irish Church by Parliament in 1869.

n. the act terminating an established state of affairs; especially ending a connection with the Church of England

"Since the restoration, and what may be called the disestablishment of Buddhism, the shrine of Iyeyasu has been shorn of all its glories of ritual and its magnificent Buddhist paraphernalia; the 200 priests who gave it splendour are scattered, and six Shinto priests alternately attend upon it as much for the purpose of selling tickets of admission as for any priestly duties."

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