Definition of "frocking" [frocking]

• Present participle of frock. (verb)

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• "For while the secular world has produced many advances -- the emancipation of women being a big one, including, notably, the frocking of women in some Protestant denominations -- the secular world has also blurred the moral line in the culture, the line that gives meaning and value to life, and in so doing has produced ... junkier results: the mainstreaming of pornography, for one example."
• "For while the secular world has produced many advances --- the emancipation of women being a big one, including, notably, the frocking of women in some Protestant denominations --- the secular world has also blurred the moral line in the culture, the line that gives meaning and value to life, and in so doing has produced ... junkier results: the mainstreaming of pornography, for one example."
• "And of course Lewis got to this point via a de-frocking as a priest, with a cross in the no publicity box, some tremendous baggage from both West Ham and the Leeward Islands, and a year or so he says running a young offenders institute."