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To officially take a priest out of the job because he or she did something wrong — and, in the old picture, to take away the right to wear the priest’s robe (the frock). Churches still use it in that strict way. News writers also stretch it to other jobs: a doctor or a teacher “defrocked” for , meaning stripped of the professional role. Though actually that is a metaphor; the home of the word is clergy. Formal; you meet it in newspapers more than in speech.
解除神職、褫奪聖職（正式剝奪神父／牧師的職位）。
組成From French défroquer, from dé- + froc. By surface analysis, de- + frock.
同家族的字
- frockthe robe; this verb is taking that robe — and the office — away
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
defrockverb/diːˈfɹɒk/
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To divest of a frock.
- 2
To formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.
- The defrocked priest may no longer perform rites.
- The Vatican has defrocked the anti-abortion US priest Frank Pavone for what it said were “blasphemous communications on social media” as well as “persistent disobedience” of his bishop.
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To formally remove the rights and authority of someone, e.g. a government official or a medical practitioner.
- There are refugees and black marketers, defrocked bankers and resistance fighters, gamblers, floozies, French colonial policemen, American and Spanish entertainers, and, eventually, Nazi officers (who in reality never set foot in Casablanca).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。