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Definition of Defrocked
1. defrock [v] - See also: defrock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defrocked
Literary usage of Defrocked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beyond the Rhine: Memories of Art and Life in Germany Before the War by Marc Henry (1918)
"Such, my dear friend, is the wonderful culture inaugurated by a defrocked Augustin
monk married to a defrocked Augustin nun. Note in passing the difference ..."
2. English Lyrical Poetry from Its Origins to the Present Time by Edward Bliss Reed (1912)
"... sometimes defrocked clerks, students drifting from University to University,
turning minstrel to gain their bread, had a body of Latin songs of their ..."
3. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"In 1999, a defrocked former Greek Orthodox priest, after exhausting appeals
stemming from a 1994 case for usurpation of religious authority, paid a fine in ..."
4. The Mount Vernon Street Warrens: A Boston Story, 1860-1910 by Martin Green (1880)
"What we see here and in those named before (and we might add Santayana, and
others) is a family or brotherhood or order (a defrocked order) of aesthete ..."
5. The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700 by Geoffroy Atkinson (1920)
"... the defrocked monk and renegade Protestant chorister, never became emancipated )
from the sin idea. He laments the lot of woman in European civilization ..."
6. England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613-1614 by Maija Jansson, N. M. Rogozhin, Paul Bushkovitch (1994)
"... a defrocked monk from the Chudov monastery in Moscow. His assassination in
1606 opened the way for Vasilii ..."
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