defrock

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to divest of a frock
to formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy

The defrocked priest may no longer perform rites.

{f} remove (a monk, priest, etc.) from ecclesiastical status, unfrock
divest of the frock; of church officials
If a priest is defrocked, he is forced to stop being a priest because of bad behaviour. Mellors was preaching heresy and had to be immediately defrocked. a defrocked priest. to officially remove a priest from his or her job because he or she did something wrong
unfrock
defrocked
past of defrock
defrocking
present participle of defrock
defrocks
third-person singular of defrock
defrock
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