unfrocking

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Last week Thomas' 30-year career as a cleric came to an end in a formal unfrocking ceremony in London's medieval Southwark Cathedral.

From Time Magazine Archive

East Dereham Manor.—Is it true that "the manor of East Dereham of the Queen" was wrested from the See of Ely by Queen Elizabeth's celebrated threat of "unfrocking?"

From Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

It is not, he cried, ‘the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, that will make us a happy nation,’ but the practice of virtue, and virtue means freedom to choose. 

From Obiter Dicta Second Series by Birrell, Augustine

It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, and the removing him from off the presbyterian shoulders, that will make us a happy nation.

From Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by Milton, John