adjective
- removed from religious office or deprived of clerical status
Usage: formal; ecclesiastical
Examples
- The disfrocked priest was no longer allowed to perform religious ceremonies.
- After the scandal, he became a disfrocked minister.
- The disfrocked clergyman left the church in disgrace.
- She wrote about the struggles of disfrocked religious leaders.
- The bishop announced that the disfrocked pastor could not return to ministry.
- Many disfrocked clergy members struggle to find new careers.