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uncircumcised

[ uhn-sur-kuhm-sahyzd ]

adjective

  1. not circumcised.
  2. not Jewish; gentile.
  3. heathen; unregenerate.


uncircumcised

/ ʌˈɜːəˌɪ /

adjective

  1. not circumcised
  2. not Jewish; gentile
  3. theol not purified
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of uncircumcised1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English un- 1 + circumcised ( def )
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“Just a few of them, especially when they are uncircumcised, developed a serious deformity, but that was not only related to the lack of circumcision but also to the skills of the injector.”

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Those setting up such camps search for uncircumcised boys to undergo the ritual, known as “mukanda” - often going to schools and forcing their way into classrooms to pick up those they deem the right age.

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If the tally of fatalities is to be believed, the Egyptians collected the penises of 6,359 uncircumcised enemy dead and the hands of 2,362 circumcised enemies.

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The study found BV occurred in 31% of the 168 couples studied, where the woman did not have BV at baseline, and 37.3% if the man was uncircumcised and 26.3% who were.

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He called Thomas K. Duane, one of the first two openly gay members of the City Council, an “insignificant, uncircumcised Philistine.”

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