Crossword-Solution: SECULARISATION 14 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Angelo, to Naples, after extorting from him vast sums of money, and Clement’s flight to Orvieto must have happened without any connivance on the part of Spain.[280] Whether the Emperor ever thought seriously of the secularisation of the States of the Church,[281] for which everybody was quite prepared, and whether he was really dissuaded from it by the representations of Henry VIII.

The greatest danger of all--secularisation--the danger which came from within, from the Popes themselves and their ‘nipoti,’ was adjourned for centuries by the German Reformation.

She had encouraged him to continue the struggle, had analysed his various plans of reform, and had given her enthusiastic support to the partitioning of the Bishop's fief and the secularisation of the University.

This they proposed to effect by means of the disestablishment, or secularisation, of ecclesiastical States in the interior of Germany.

The principle of secularisation was accepted by the Congress without much difficulty, all the energy of debate being reserved for the discussion of details: arrangements which were to transfer a few miles of ground and half a dozen custom-houses from some bankrupt ecclesiastic to some French-bought duke excited more interest in Germany than the loss of the Rhenish Provinces, and the subjection of a tenth part of the German nation to a foreign rule.