Word Meanings - UNFROCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest.

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• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• PRIESTING
  The office of a priest. Milton.
• PRIESTESS
  A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter.
• FROCKED
  Clothed in a frock.
• PRIEST-RIDDEN
  Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people. Swift.
• PRIESTISM
  The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.
• PRIVILEGED
  Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his
• DIVESTURE
  Divestiture.
• DIVEST
  See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
• FROCK
  1. To clothe in a frock. 2. To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• UNFROCK
  To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• HIGH-PRIESTHOOD
  The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.
• PRIVILEGE
  See CHILDREN (more info) law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, 1. A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.