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unfrock

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ frock.

Verb

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unfrock (third-person singular simple present unfrocks, present participle unfrocking, simple past and past participle unfrocked)

  1. (transitive) To remove from the clergy; to revoke the clerical status of.
    • 1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      Being a provincial priest—at first dressed as a layman, having been unfrocked for his modernism, but afterwards restored to his clerical privileges—he had a traditional admiration for all that was ecclesiastically important.

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