defrocked是什么意思？

defrocked

• v. 剥去法衣，解除僧职( defrock的过去式和过去分词 )；

例句

• The defrocked priest also faces other criminal trials and scores of civil lawsuits. 已被削去教士职务的他还面临其他刑事审判和数十件民事官司.
• ...a defrocked priest. 被免除圣职的牧师
• Mellors was preaching heresy and had to be immediately defrocked. 梅勒斯宣扬异端邪说，不得不立即免去其圣职。

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• V-PASSIVE
  免去(牧师等)的圣职
  If a priest is defrocked, he is forced to stop being a priest because of bad behaviour.
  例句
  Mellors was preaching heresy and had to be immediately defrocked. 梅勒斯宣扬异端邪说，不得不立即免去其圣职。 ...a defrocked priest. 被免除圣职的牧师