defrockv.
transitive. To deprive of the priestly garb; to unfrock.
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1600 J. Hamilton Facile Traictise 440 This defrokit frere..mariet a zoung las of .xv. zearis auld.
Derivatives
defrocked adj. /dɪˈfrɒkt/
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1891 Tablet 21 Feb. 294 The eloquent defrocked have denounced..the vows which they failed to keep.
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