uncircumcision

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ circumcision.

Noun

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uncircumcision (countable and uncountable, plural uncircumcisions)

  1. Absence of circumcision; not being circumcised.
    • 1812, Andrew Lee, Sermons on Various Important Subjects[1]:
      For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love."
    • 1856, Samuel Simon Schmucker, American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics[2]:
      As the apostle of the Gentiles declares, that circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God: so as baptism occupies the place of circumcision, baptism is nothing and the want of it nothing, unless accompanied with a sincere, universal and irrevocable purpose to keep the commandments of God.