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Word of the Week: Antidisestablishmentarianism

Our word of the week for 3/19/12 to 3/23/12 is antidisestablishmentarianism.

The dictionary definition of antidisestablishmentarianism is, "opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, especially the Anglican Church in 19th-century England."

We talked in class about how this word is often used more generally to describe a perspective of opposition to the dissolution of the rules and structure of an established organization.  For instance, just now Ms. Bourque thought of an example:

Antidisestablishmentarianists might believe that state-supported and regulated public schools are a good thing.  They may believe that the complete privatization of education would be a bad move.

The sentence we created in class to practice the word antidisestablishmentarianism is:

Teachers are great examples of antidisestablishmentarianism, in school.