disafforestation
English edit
Etymology edit
From post-classical Latin disafforestatio (13th cent.), from the participial stem of Latin disafforestare.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun edit
disafforestation (countable and uncountable, plural disafforestations)
- (law, now historical) The change in the legal status of an area from forest to that of normal land, entailing the loss of forest laws.
- 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 37:
- Disafforestation and enclosure could thus be regarded as a national duty, a kindness in disguise to the idle poor, as well as of more immediate benefit to the rich encloser.
- (now rare) Deforestation.