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
Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin almost had to unfrock themselves in order to become statesmen.
From Charred Wood by Shepherd, J. Clinton
Foiled again, he laid the case before the Bishop of Worcester, and begged his lordship to unfrock Thomas Dancox.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.
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