unclerical

unclerical

(ʌnˈklɛrɪkəl)
adj
(Ecclesiastical Terms) not clerical; not characteristic of or appropriate for a member of the clergy
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Sometimes, as in the charming little book we wish now to introduce, unclerical human nature occupies the foreground almost exclusively; though priestly faces will still be found gazing upon us from time to time.
I am a martyr to duty and to your odious unclerical habit of hunting, Bute."
"Prepare yourself to meet the most unclerical of clergymen," he said.
They claimed Ffrench was guilty of "serious charges of unclerical conduct," (201) including alleged carnal relations with a woman, licentiousness, and profligacy during an earlier assignment in Canada.
2069-72) and whose unclerical or all-too-clerical innuendoes horrify the King (l.