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unfrock

[uhn-frok] / ʌnˈfrɒk /




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An unfrocked priest seeks redemption by performing an exorcism on a young woman.

From Los Angeles Times

On the death of her first husband, she married an unfrocked priest and, when he died, she set up with a civil servant, 24 years her junior.

From BBC

"We 're not going to unfrock you, Hunter," said he, gayly, in dismissing him.

From Project Gutenberg

Hold your tongue; it was I who made you Metropolitan, and I unfrock you.

From Project Gutenberg

Her ideas upon unfrocking--though the cleaver was not one of them--were sufficiently terrible, and grew more and more vivid and daunting the longer she dwelt upon them.

From Project Gutenberg