Circumcision

//ˌsɜː(ɹ)kəmˈsɪʒən//

"Circumcision" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Male circumcision decreases the risk of viral infections that cause herpes and cancer.

When will the circumcision party be held?

There is such a thing as female circumcision.

The practice of male circumcision is ancient and developed in parallel amongst different cultures.

Circumcision is unnecessary.

Circumcision is painful.

Circumcision of children is unethical.

Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision. .

And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.

Technically, a circumcision is a surgery.

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So ſay I , did the Covenant of circumciſion, in that he that was circumciſed was bound to keep the whole Law Gal 5. 3.

I had first to obtain a recommendation from the Assistant Resident to the Regent, and then an order from the Regent to the Waidono; and when after a week's delay I arrived with my baggage and men at Modjo-agong, I found them all in the midst of a five days' feast, to celebrate the circumcision of the Waidono's younger brother and cousin, and had a small room in an outhouse given me to stay in.

The ancient Egyptians practiced circumcision by creating a dorsal incision in the foreskin.

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