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unfrock

[uhn-frok] / ʌnˈfrɒk /




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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

But not on that account do I wish to unfrock myself; nor certainly on that account do I wish to be deprived of my wife.

From Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope

Disfrock, dis-frok′, v.t. to unfrock, deprive of clerical garb.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various




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