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Definition of defrock in English: defrockverb diːˈfrɒkdiˈfrɑk [with object]1Deprive (a person in holy orders) of ecclesiastical status. he had left his diocese one step ahead of a move to defrock him a defrocked French Catholic priest Example sentencesExamples - The Modernist clergyman who had led the revolt, found himself defrocked and excommunicated.
- The cardinals said on Wednesday they would recommend a process to defrock any priest who has become ‘notorious and is guilty of the serial, predatory sexual abuse of minors’.
- He was also allegedly defrocked as a Russian Orthodox priest in his home country.
- He was sentenced to a fine, whipping, defrocking, life imprisonment and pillorying four times a year for the rest of his life.
- Do they determine in some way or another that this priest can be reassigned and another priest should be defrocked?
- Now defrocked, he was free from government monastic regulations and duties, and yet he had not freely chosen the lay life for himself.
- The Dallas resolution made it much easier to defrock a priest for molesting a child.
- Priests who are guilty of sexually assaulting minors should be defrocked and turned over to the law.
- The bishop had been speaking about gun control at an anti-gun rally only a few days before the court hearing, and recommended that he be defrocked.
- If this story is true the priest who offered up this warped advice should be defrocked.
- Journalists rarely understand the full power of the press, but one authority we don't have is the power to defrock priests.
- If he is ordained, he should be defrocked for violating confidentiality.
- An Irish Protestant priest who faced being defrocked for publicly stating he did not believe in the divinity of Christ last night announced his resignation.
- Because of Buddhism's central importance in national life, the state has long been reluctant to act against errant monks until they have been defrocked by the Buddhist hierarchy.
- He was tried for heresy by the Free Church of Scotland and defrocked.
- A bishops' committee has recommended the church defrock any priest who abuses children in the future, but says that if a priest only abused one child in the past, he might continue as a priest.
- Don Vitaliano - Nothing But a Priest is a documentary about an anti-capitalist priest who has subsequently been defrocked.
- Because it is a state church, however, the Lutheran Church cannot defrock him.
- He has been suspended for six months while the matter is further investigated, and it appears almost a certainty that he will be defrocked.
- As expected their new policy does determine that priests who offend from here on out will be defrocked.
- 1.1 Deprive (someone) of professional status or membership of a prestigious group.
Example sentencesExamples - Some welcome the defrocking of consultants as a sign of democratisation: the people will not stand for being pulled apart and pushed around by men in white coats.
- If the gentlemen's code lauded self-sacrifice, its opposite selfishness - was behavior that, if egregious enough, could defrock a gentleman.
- These defrocked workers are retraining for free in the city sponsored center, where they learn computer skills and facial massage.
- This courageous stand put him at odds with the chief justice, who has since been defrocked for thumbing his nose at the federal courts.
- If you've accepted such behavior in the past and expect to continue this friendship in the future, it's wrong to insist on defrocking your friend.
- In line with the law he was defrocked, and the commandments plaque was removed.
Origin Early 17th century: from French défroquer, from dé- (expressing removal) + froc 'frock'. frock from Late Middle English: This comes from Old French froc, of Germanic origin. The original sense ‘priest's or monk's gown’ is preserved in defrock (late 16th century).
Definition of defrock in US English: defrockverbdēˈfräkdiˈfrɑk [with object]1Deprive (a person in holy orders) of ecclesiastical status. Example sentencesExamples - Journalists rarely understand the full power of the press, but one authority we don't have is the power to defrock priests.
- If this story is true the priest who offered up this warped advice should be defrocked.
- If he is ordained, he should be defrocked for violating confidentiality.
- Because it is a state church, however, the Lutheran Church cannot defrock him.
- As expected their new policy does determine that priests who offend from here on out will be defrocked.
- He was also allegedly defrocked as a Russian Orthodox priest in his home country.
- The Modernist clergyman who had led the revolt, found himself defrocked and excommunicated.
- Now defrocked, he was free from government monastic regulations and duties, and yet he had not freely chosen the lay life for himself.
- The bishop had been speaking about gun control at an anti-gun rally only a few days before the court hearing, and recommended that he be defrocked.
- Priests who are guilty of sexually assaulting minors should be defrocked and turned over to the law.
- An Irish Protestant priest who faced being defrocked for publicly stating he did not believe in the divinity of Christ last night announced his resignation.
- He has been suspended for six months while the matter is further investigated, and it appears almost a certainty that he will be defrocked.
- He was tried for heresy by the Free Church of Scotland and defrocked.
- He was sentenced to a fine, whipping, defrocking, life imprisonment and pillorying four times a year for the rest of his life.
- Do they determine in some way or another that this priest can be reassigned and another priest should be defrocked?
- The Dallas resolution made it much easier to defrock a priest for molesting a child.
- Because of Buddhism's central importance in national life, the state has long been reluctant to act against errant monks until they have been defrocked by the Buddhist hierarchy.
- Don Vitaliano - Nothing But a Priest is a documentary about an anti-capitalist priest who has subsequently been defrocked.
- A bishops' committee has recommended the church defrock any priest who abuses children in the future, but says that if a priest only abused one child in the past, he might continue as a priest.
- The cardinals said on Wednesday they would recommend a process to defrock any priest who has become ‘notorious and is guilty of the serial, predatory sexual abuse of minors’.
- 1.1usually as adjective defrocked Deprive (someone) of professional status or membership of a prestigious group.
Example sentencesExamples - Some welcome the defrocking of consultants as a sign of democratisation: the people will not stand for being pulled apart and pushed around by men in white coats.
- If the gentlemen's code lauded self-sacrifice, its opposite selfishness - was behavior that, if egregious enough, could defrock a gentleman.
- If you've accepted such behavior in the past and expect to continue this friendship in the future, it's wrong to insist on defrocking your friend.
- This courageous stand put him at odds with the chief justice, who has since been defrocked for thumbing his nose at the federal courts.
- In line with the law he was defrocked, and the commandments plaque was removed.
- These defrocked workers are retraining for free in the city sponsored center, where they learn computer skills and facial massage.
Origin Early 17th century: from French défroquer, from dé- (expressing removal) + froc ‘frock’. |