Can someone break this down for me?
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Wikipedia offers a reasonably concise explanation:
>In 19th century Britain, it developed as a political movement in opposition to [disestablishmentarianism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disestablishmentarianism), the [Liberal Party](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK))’s efforts to [disestablish](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disestablishment) or remove the [Church of England](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England) as the [official state church](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Church) of England, [Ireland](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland), and [Wales](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales).
It’s
* anti- (against)
* -dis- (reversing)
* -establishment- (having the Church of England be the official state religion)
* -arian- (suffix to make *disestablishmentarians* mean a kind of person)
* -ism (a a principle or policy).
So antidisestablishmentarianism is the attitute the *opposes* the movement to *repeal* the laws that make the COE the state church of the UK.
You can also break down *establishment* into pieces, but that’s historical etymology, not parsing a modern word.
Establishmentarianism is the belief that there should be an officially state backed (established) church. Dis-establishmentarianism is getting rid of that. So with the double negative, Anti-dis-establishmentarianism essentially means being opposed to a a government supported church system being privatized.
“Establish” in this case means to make a certain religion the official religion of the state. In this case, the Church of England was established as the official state religion of England from its founding by King Henry VIII in the 1500s.
Likewise, to “disestablish” means to end a religion’s status as a state religion. The act of doing so is “disestablishment.”
There was a political movement in the UK in the 19th century to disestablish the Church of England as the state church. People who advocated doing so were “disestablishmentarians” and their movement was called “disestablishmentarianism.”
Likewise, the counter-movement against this idea was “antidisestablishmentarianism,” whose supporters wanted the Church of England to remain the state religion. This is the position that ultimately won out, and the Church of England is still the national church of England to this day.
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Wikipedia offers a reasonably concise explanation:
>In 19th century Britain, it developed as a political movement in opposition to [disestablishmentarianism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disestablishmentarianism), the [Liberal Party](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK))’s efforts to [disestablish](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disestablishment) or remove the [Church of England](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England) as the [official state church](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Church) of England, [Ireland](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland), and [Wales](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales).
It’s
* anti- (against)
* -dis- (reversing)
* -establishment- (having the Church of England be the official state religion)
* -arian- (suffix to make *disestablishmentarians* mean a kind of person)
* -ism (a a principle or policy).
So antidisestablishmentarianism is the attitute the *opposes* the movement to *repeal* the laws that make the COE the state church of the UK.
You can also break down *establishment* into pieces, but that’s historical etymology, not parsing a modern word.
Establishmentarianism is the belief that there should be an officially state backed (established) church. Dis-establishmentarianism is getting rid of that. So with the double negative, Anti-dis-establishmentarianism essentially means being opposed to a a government supported church system being privatized.
Antidisestablishmentarianism is a big word that means the opposite of breaking away from a church. It means to keep the church connected to the government, so the government and the church stay together.
“Establish” in this case means to make a certain religion the official religion of the state. In this case, the Church of England was established as the official state religion of England from its founding by King Henry VIII in the 1500s.
Likewise, to “disestablish” means to end a religion’s status as a state religion. The act of doing so is “disestablishment.”
There was a political movement in the UK in the 19th century to disestablish the Church of England as the state church. People who advocated doing so were “disestablishmentarians” and their movement was called “disestablishmentarianism.”
Likewise, the counter-movement against this idea was “antidisestablishmentarianism,” whose supporters wanted the Church of England to remain the state religion. This is the position that ultimately won out, and the Church of England is still the national church of England to this day.
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