unfrocking

unfrocking

1. present participle and gerund of unfrock

unfrocking (plural unfrockings)

1. The act of somebody being unfrocked.
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

     It is not the unfrocking of a Priest, the unmitring of a Bishop