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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

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

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

Like the priest, the journalist can never unfrock himself.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

Simply unfrock him, and take away his living altogether.

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony




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