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The campaign to disestablish the Anglican Church of Ireland began in the 18th century. [citation needed] A rich church, with 22 bishops drawing £150,000 a year in aggregate, and a further £600,000 going annually to the rest of the clergy, [1] it was wholly disproportionate to the needs of its worshippers, and consisted largely of absentee sinecurists. [1]
Arms of the See of Canterbury, governing the Church of England. Antidisestablishmentarianism (/ ˌ æ n t i d ɪ s ɪ ˌ s t æ b l ɪ ʃ m ə n ˈ t ɛər i ə n ɪ z əm / ⓘ, US also / ˌ æ n t aɪ-/ ⓘ) is a position that advocates that a state church (the "established church") should continue to receive government patronage, rather than be disestablished (i.e., be separated from the ...
The term was first used in the modern sense in 1958 by the British magazine New Statesman to refer to its political and social agenda. [1] Antiestablishmentarianism (or anti-establishmentarianism) is an expression for such a political philosophy. Anti-establishment positions vary depending on political orientation.
Merriam Webster does not recognize the word because it is practically unused in the modern era, although they do include disestablishmentarianism and antiestablishmentarianism. [5] [6] The American Heritage, [7] Chambers, [8] and Oxford English [9] similarly exclude antidisestablishmentarianism, but keep smaller variations.
As is the paragraph before it spouting other long words. The first sentence which links to a collection of longest words in the English language is all that is needed, or we may as well copy the entire list of words and their full meanings and history in to the start of every page about a long word. 210.193.170.9 08:05, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
By a "grammatical" sentence Chomsky means a sentence that is intuitively "acceptable to a native speaker". [9] It is a sentence pronounced with a "normal sentence intonation". It is also "recall[ed] much more quickly" and "learn[ed] much more easily". [61] Chomsky then analyzes further about the basis of "grammaticality."
A major sentence is a regular sentence; it has a subject and a predicate, e.g. "I have a ball." In this sentence, one can change the persons, e.g. "We have a ball." However, a minor sentence is an irregular type of sentence that does not contain a main clause, e.g. "Mary!", "Precisely so.", "Next Tuesday evening after it gets dark."
A sentence consisting of at least one dependent clause and at least two independent clauses may be called a complex-compound sentence or compound-complex sentence. Sentence 1 is an example of a simple sentence. Sentence 2 is compound because "so" is considered a coordinating conjunction in English, and sentence 3 is complex.