unfrock
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of unfrock
Example Sentences
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The Vatican has sent him for treatment but has yet to unfrock him, even after he seemed to trivialise his actions in a television interview.
From Economist ● Apr. 28, 2011
They block his plan for a Church dance, they prevent his sheltering a pursued harlot, just as he has concluded that the Church is not all that it should be, his disapproving seniors unfrock him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, in a committee debate on Parliament's new Criminal Justice bill, Laborite Emrys Hughes launched a movement to unwig and unfrock Britain's men of law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Simply unfrock him, and take away his living altogether.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony
He may come to be a worthy soldier, and so justify me in allowing him to unfrock himself.
From Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower by Peacock, Ralph
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