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Discontinuation vs Disestablishment - What's the difference?

discontinuation | disestablishment |

As nouns the difference between discontinuation and disestablishment

is that discontinuation is breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance while disestablishment is the separation of church and state; the removal of a policy of having an official governing religion.

discontinuation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.

    • disestablishment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The separation of church and state; the removal of a policy of having an official governing religion.
    • As evangelicals defect in one direction and traditionalists in the other, and disestablishment beckons with the reform of the House of Lords ... — The Times, October 21, 2009, Desperate bishops invited Rome to park its tanks on Archbishop’s lawn by Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent

    See also

    * antidisestablishment