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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 state).
Antidisestablishmentarianism is a political position that originated in 19th century Britain. The position opposed proposals at that time to remove the Anglican Church 's status as the established church of England, Ireland, and Wales, but not in Scotland, which had and still has its own separate national church.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary does not contain antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), as the editors found no widespread, sustained usage of the word in its original meaning. The longest word in that dictionary is electroencephalographically (27 letters).
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]
In India, the 1960s saw emergence of a group of writers who called themselves Hungryalists.They were the first anti-establishment and counter culture writers in Bengal whose dissenting voice drew attention of the government and court cases were filed against them. [13]
Moral disengagement is a meaning from developmental psychology, educational psychology and social psychology for the process of convincing the self that ethical standards do not apply to oneself in a particular context. [1] [2] This is done by separating moral reactions from inhumane conduct and disabling the mechanism of self-condemnation. [3]
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Interesting; I just googled, though I didn't x-link with the rags just named or any 60s context, and now gather that the '60s use, or "how it got repeated into the '70s", so to speak, was a malapropism; by the late '70s peple would say something to the effect of "he is/are you antidisestablishmentarian" to mean "are you/he is anti-establishment ...