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Defrock

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To strip of priestly privileges and functions.

v. To deprive of the right to practice a profession.

v. To deprive of an honorary position.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to divest of a frock

v. to formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To divest of the frock, i. e. to deprive (a priest, minister, etc.) of official ecclesiastical authority; -- of church officials.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Same as unfrock.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. divest of the frock; of church officials

Word Usage

"A senior Catholic Church official has threatened controversy by saying that it would be safer not to "defrock" priests who had been convicted of sexually abusing children."

Verb Form

defrocked defrocking defrocks

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

divest disinvest

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

unfrock disfrock