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unpriest

unpriest verb: to deprive of priesthood.

Verb

unpriest (third-person singular simple present unpriests, present participle unpriesting, simple past and past participle unpriested)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of priesthood
    • The same thought Leo, bishop of Rome, Ep. 85, to the African bishops of Mauritania Caesariensis, wherein complaining of a certain priest, who divorcing his wife, or being divorced by her, as other copies have it, had married another, neither dissolves the matrimony, nor excommunicates him, only...1644 July, John Milton, The Judgment of Martin Bucer touching Divorce, Book II, Chapter XXIV, tr. of Martin Bucer, De Regno Christi.
    Synonyms:
    unfrock

Noun

unpriest (plural unpriests)

  1. (rare) One who is not a priest.

Synonyms of unpriest

Forms of unpriest

Verb
third-person singular presentunpriests
present participleunpriesting
past participleunpriested
pastunpriested
Noun
pluralunpriests

Origin of unpriest

From un- + priest.

Questions about unpriest

What does unpriest mean?
Unpriest means to deprive of priesthood.
What part of speech is unpriest?
Unpriest can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of unpriest?
The past tense of unpriest is unpriested.

Words near unpriest in the dictionary

  1. unpride
  2. unprideful
  3. unpridefully
  4. unpried
  5. unpries
  6. unpriest
  7. unpriested
  8. unpriesting
  9. unpriestlike
  10. unpriestly
  11. unpriests

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