How To Use unfrock In A Sentence
- It would have been a luxury to unfrock some of them, but it has seemed to me the duty of every sincere Republican to endure a great deal rather than say anything to introduce division or controversy into party ranks .... A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
- But they reveal the truth, and the messenger is unfrocked and imprisoned in a dark dungeon.
- The old physician was unfrocked by the Medical Association.
- Simply unfrock him, and take away his living altogether. The Last Chronicle of Barset
- For example, disfrock is a synonym for unfrock.
- Former Oakland Bishop John Cummings has told The New York Times that in the 80s, the Holy See was reluctant to 'unfrock' pedophile priests, including Stephen Kiesle, found guilty of lewd conduct with two young boys in San Francisco in 1978. Timesofmalta.com
- At a council held at Westminster in October 1163 Henry demanded that criminous clerks should be unfrocked by the Church and handed over to the lay courts for punishment.
- Yet, mine honest Friar, I think it would be best both for the church and thyself, that I should procure a license to unfrock thee, and retain thee as a yeoman of our guard, serving in care of our person, as formerly in attendance upon the altar of Saint Dunstan. '' Ivanhoe
- The old physician was unfrocked by the Medical Association.
- If I could put off the garb of my priesthood as readily as I put it on I would straightway unfrock myself here. The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers.
