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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To remove from the clergy; to revoke the clerical status of..
Let’s wake up and oppose this widespread defamation; restore to the feast its significance and grandeur. Shall we permit it to be unfrocked of its glory and transformed essentially into “Clausmas” instead of Christmas?
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.
Use unfrock when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unfrock means (transitive) To remove from the clergy; to revoke the clerical status of..
Common synonyms include defrock, disfrock, unpriest.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Let’s wake up and oppose this widespread defamation; restore to the feast its significance and grandeur. Shall we permit it to be unfrocked of its glory and transformed essentially into “Clausmas” instead of Christmas?
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