unfrock

Let us pray that they do unfrock you, and then you can lead a regiment in the wars.

Should they unfrock me for this business, I shall leave the pulpit for a more adventurous life."

"Suppose they unfrock me, Imogene.

He was "a militant defender of theological modernism who denied the Virgin birth and defied the Bishops of his church to unfrock him for heresy".

"Why lad, if the true churchmen hear of our bishop and what he hath done, they'll unfrock him and tell him he is a bishop no longer."

"Were I a monk, I would welcome death that should unfrock me, and let me go a-wandering in Paradise among these fair lady saints we see in the pictures."

It comes after it was disclosed that the Pope, who was then Cardinal Ratzinger, resisted appeals to unfrock an American priest with a record of sexually molesting children.

I love you I love you - it's become some trilling song popular for a lurid month and then dismissed to the club circuit where pudgy rockers with grease in their hair and yearning in their voice will use it to unfrock the lolling front-row girls.

The queen herself intervened, when he refused to grant Ely House to her favorite, Sir Christopher Hatton; but the well-known letter beginning "Proud Prelate" and threatening to unfrock him seems to be an impudent forgery which first saw the light in the Annual Register for 1761.