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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

Simply unfrock him, and take away his living altogether.

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

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

From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various




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