Associations to the word «Defrock»

Wiktionary

DEFROCK, verb. (literally) to divest of a frock
DEFROCK, verb. (figuratively) to formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.

Dictionary definition

DEFROCK, verb. Divest of the frock; of church officials.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne