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单词 unfrock
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unfrockv.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈfrɒk/, U.S. /ˌənˈfrɑk/
Etymology: un- prefix2 1b. Compare French défroquer , and ungown v.
1. transitive. To strip (an ecclesiastic) of his frock as a sign of degradation; hence, to deprive of priestly function or office.The second quotation is the only source for the common attribution of the term to Queen Elizabeth.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > unfrocking > unfrock [verb (transitive)]
unhodeOE
disordain1297
disgradec1380
degrade1395
deprivec1400
inhibit1531
disorder1570
disbishop1585
defrock1600
uncassock1645
desecrate1674
unfrockify1694
unclergy1695
undignify1702
unordain1709
unfrock?a1750
disfrock1877
disgown1887
ungown1895
?a1750 Forged Letter Q. Eliz. in Ann. Reg., Char. (1761) 15/1 If you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by ——, I will immediately unfrock you.
1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt I. 10 He took especial care that this..should not reach the ears of his bishop, who would infallibly have unfrocked him.
1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers III. xvii. 296 Clergymen have been unfrocked for less than what you have been guilty of.
1884 Nonconformist & Independent 22 May 505/3 Mr. Justice Stephen truly remarked, there was no power to unfrock him.
reflexive.1822 Q. Rev. 28 41 Who had been first a Dominican friar, then, having unfrocked himself, a gardener.1855 L. Hunt Old Court Suburb I. 150 Who had also been a prelate, but had unfrocked himself to become a statesman.absolute.1808 E. S. Barrett Miss-led General 85 He had unfrocked, that is, given over the cure of souls in this world.
2. transferred. To unmask or expose.
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)]
unwryc825
unhelec1000
to draw forthc1175
unhillc1200
to bring forth?c1225
unsteekc1250
let witc1275
uncovera1300
wraya1300
knowc1300
barea1325
shrivec1374
unwrapc1374
again-covera1382
nakena1382
outc1390
tellc1390
disclosea1393
cough1393
unhidea1400
unclosec1400
unhaspc1400
bewrayc1405
reveal1409
accusea1413
reveil1424
unlocka1425
unrekec1425
disclude?1440
uncurec1440
utter1444
detect1447
break1463
expose1483
divinec1500
revelate1514
to bring (also put) to light1526
decipher1529
rake1547
rip1549
unshadow1550
to lay to sight1563
uppen1565
unlace1567
unvisor?1571
resign1572
uncloak1574
disshroud1577
spill1577
reap1578
unrip1579
scour1585
unharboura1586
unmask1586
uncase1587
descrya1591
unclasp?1592
unrive1592
discover1594
unburden1594
untomb1594
unhusk1596
dismask1598
to open upc1600
untruss1600
divulge1602
unshale1606
unbrace1607
unveil1609
rave1610
disveil1611
unface1611
unsecret1612
unvizard1620
to open up1624
uncurtain1628
unscreen1628
unbare1630
disenvelop1632
unclothe1632
to lay forth1633
unshroud1633
unmuffle1637
midwife1638
dissecret1640
unseal1640
unmantle1643
to fetch out1644
undisguise1655
disvelop1658
decorticate1660
clash1667
exert1692
disinter1711
to up with1715
unbundlea1739
develop1741
disembosom1745
to open out1814
to let out1833
unsack1846
uncrown1849
to bring (out) in (also into) the open1861
unfrock1866
disbosom1868
to blow the lid off1928
flush1950
surface1955
to take or pull the wraps off1964
1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. xxix. 503 Spain had the monkish Calderon. There no poet like Molière unfrocked hypocrisy.

Derivatives

unˈfrocked adj.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > unfrocking > [adjective]
degraded1483
disgraded1551
unfrocked1798
disfrocked1837
defrocked1891
1798 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit. (ed. 5) 6 I love no atheist French Bishops, nor unfrocked grammarians in England.
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 357 The unfrocked priest would of course be amenable to lay tribunals in future.
1880 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor (ed. 3) III. xxiv. 245 On the unfrocked priest attempting flight, he..locked him in the Tower.
unˈfrocking n.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > unfrocking > [noun]
privation1444
disgrading1531
deraignment1539
deprivation1551
unfrocking1644
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 30 It is not the unfrocking of a Priest..that will make us a happy Nation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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