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

"By God, I will unfrock you!" was the Queen's gracious answer to the daring prelate, if he did not mend his ways.

From Cathedral Cities of England by Gilbert, George

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