defrocks

Meaning of defrocks

verb, 3rd person present
  1. deprive (a person in holy orders) of ecclesiastical status.
    he had left his diocese one step ahead of a move to defrock him
    a defrocked French Catholic priest

early 17th century: from French défroquer, from dé- (expressing removal) + froc ‘frock’.

Information about defrocks

  • It is a verb.
  • The singular form of defrocks is: defrock.
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Hyphenation of defrocks

de-frocks

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • defrocks is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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