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Answer for the clue "Transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession ", 14 letters:
secularisation

Word definitions for secularisation in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion [syn: secularization ] transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession [syn: secularization ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of secularization English)

Usage examples of secularisation.

India in 1959 by an altogether more thorough policy of secularisation in which both the monasteries and the lay nobility, hitherto the twin supports of the theocracy, lost all their former jurisdiction.