unfrock

English

Etymology

un- +‎ frock

Verb

unfrock (third-person singular simple present unfrocks, present participle unfrocking, simple past and past participle unfrocked)

1. (transitive) To remove from the clergy; to revoke the clerical status of.
   • 1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     Being a provincial priest—at first dressed as a layman, having been unfrocked for his modernism, but afterwards restored to his clerical privileges—he had a traditional admiration for all that was ecclesiastically important.

Synonyms

• defrock
• disfrock
• unpriest