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uncircumˈcision
(un-1 12 and 5 b.)
1526Tindale Rom. ii. 25 But if thou breake the lawe thy circumcision is made vncircumcision. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 145 Now there is no respect of Greke or Jewe, circumcision or vncircumcision. 1643–5Milton Divorce ii. vi, How vain then,..to exact a circumcision of flesh from an infant,..and to dispence an uncircumcision in the soul of a grown man. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Gal. vi. 16 Placing acceptable Religion in this, and not in Circumcision or Uncircumcision. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxvii, Even while thou..wert fighting in the ranks of uncircumcision. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 163 The idle fancies that circumcision alone was enough to save them from God's wrath, and that uncircumcision was worse than crime. |