disgown
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disgown (third-person singular simple present disgowns, present participle disgowning, simple past and past participle disgowned)
- (transitive) To divest of a gown of office; to defrock.
- 1868, The Northern Monthly Magazine, volume 2, page 354:
- The boldness with which Dr. Canfield defied Bishop Potter when the latter threatened to disgown him for such transgressions was simply an expression of a right to individual action under the impulse of conviction of duty to the truth.