Definition
disendowers
noun
- plural of disendower; persons who deprive someone of an endowment, property, or natural gifts or abilities
Usage: formal or literary; archaic
Examples
- The disendowers of the institution stripped it of its historical resources.
- Those who act as disendowers of the poor rob them of opportunity.
- The disendowers sought to diminish the foundation's ability to support education.
- History remembers the disendowers as enemies of progress and learning.