Unfrocked

Again the same pattern: repeated petitions from the local diocese to have the criminal "unfrocked" (an odd term when you think about it) met with stony indifference from Ratzinger's tightly run bureaucracy. ❋ Christopher Hitchens (2010)

Here I found keen-flashing intellects and brilliant wits; for here I met strong and alert-brained, withal horny - handed, members of the working-class; unfrocked preachers too wide in their Christianity for any congregation of Mammon-worshippers; professors broken on the wheel of university subservience to the ruling class and flung out because they were quick with knowledge which they strove to apply to the affairs of mankind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I remembered my intellectuals and idealists, my unfrocked preachers, broken professors, and clean-minded, class-conscious workingmen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is more a series of linked short stories than a novel, mainly telling the story of a year in the life of Gösta Berling, a somewhat dissolute unfrocked clergyman who is given a chance to redeem himself through the exercise of social and moral responsibility. ❋ Nwhyte (2008)

Verity (etc) the erstwhile "admirer" of Israel, also unfrocked out of her own mouth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like Mr Gladstone he did all he could to catch fallen women, but his motives were misunderstood and he was unfrocked. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Considering the pattern of your blogging "on t'internet" we can only assume that should this hilarious Tory maven be unfrocked as a girl she is genetically not fit to hold a pencil or rattle a keyboard. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Camus, bishop of Bellay, printed in the last century a large book against the monks, which an unfrocked monk abridged. ❋ Unknown (2007)

HE is traite en subalterne, and is jealous of a frocked or unfrocked manant like Maitre Francoys! ❋ Unknown (2006)

I saw a frail little man with a long, yellow face and sunken fanatical eyes, an Inquisitor, an unfrocked monk. ❋ Unknown (2006)

‘The unfrocked villain destroys more venison than half the country besides,’ says one keeper; ❋ Unknown (2004)

Tristram Shandy that the writer was a cynic who deserved to be unfrocked. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Really, my poor aunt is like the artists of the advanced guard who have stood out all their lives against the Academy, and in the end start a little academy of their own, or the unfrocked priests who get up a little private religion. ❋ Unknown (2003)

No charm in his work; the same severity in his life as in those of the unfrocked priests who follow the strictest rule of celibacy so that no one may be able to ascribe to anything but loss of faith their discarding of the cassock. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But this priestly expression caused alarm, and he looked like an unfrocked priest, various compromises to which he had been driven by the need to apologise for his taste and to keep it secret having had the effect of bringing to the surface of his face precisely what the ❋ Unknown (2003)

Thus protected it was perfectly possible for the Rev. Patrick Bront� to cause ‘acute pain’ to his daughter Charlotte for several months, and to steal several months of her short married happiness without incurring any censure from the society in which he practised the profession of a priest of the Church of England; though had he tortured a dog, or stolen a watch, that same society would have unfrocked him and cast him forth. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Through adjoining walls he can hear the voices of his colleagues, raised like his own: boisterous Frau Doktor Blankenheim, retired teacher, recent Buddhist convert and doyenne of the reading circle; pallid Herr Stettler, cyclist and erotomane; Michel Delarge from Alsace, unfrocked priest. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2003)

Kuragin was to put her into a troyka he would have ready and to drive her forty miles to the village of Kamenka, where an unfrocked priest was in readiness to perform a marriage ceremony over them. ❋ Unknown (2003)