circumcision
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7.3
- noun
- /ˌsɜrkəmˈsɪʒən/
- Specialized
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circuncisión
- Doctors often recommend circumcision if there are medical issues with the foreskin.
- boys' circumcision
- male circumcision
- ritual circumcision
You know, they sell circumcision practice kits on Amazon.
- You know, they sell circumcision practice kits on Amazon.
- In the US, non circumcision is basically not a thing.
- This is a week after the circumcision episode.
- And it's just we have a very misguided perspective of circumcision.
- They give you options for circumcision.
- In the original, original environments, which is small band hunter groups, there wasn't circumcision.
- That's true that that the H the eight day old boy has not given their consent to have the circumcision done on them.
- Two things you want to jiggle eye and jiggle eye and cutting and circumcision.
Examples
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Well, a bris is a circumcision, and a mohel is a man who performs a bris or circumcision.
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They are waiting for you to perform the circumcision.
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You do understand that this will require a circumcision, yeah?
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I got my request in for a circumcision.
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How do you stand on circumcision?
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Did you know they used to have public circumcisions in front of the village?
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After all, circumcision is hygienically sound.
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Perhaps we should start with the pain of the baby's circumcision.
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I'm trying to write a paper on the pros and cons of circumcision.
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Among the Maasai, male circumcision is a public event, a coming-out spectacle of the mature male.
Academic text (1998)
Compounds
- Offensive
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9.9
Removal of any of the outer sexual parts of a girl or woman for cultural and religious reasons
A feast day in some Christian churches on January 1 that remembers Jesus' circumcision
Surface Forms
Morphology
circumcision = circumcise (semi-transparent) = circum + cis + ion
The base word 'circumcise' is clear, but the specific practice and its cultural or religious significance may not be immediately apparent to all learners.
Etymology
Circumcision comes from circum- 'around', the same circum- you find in circle and circumference, and from -cision which comes from a word meaning 'to cut'. So it literally means a 'cut around', which describes the removal of the foreskin.