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Circumcision vs Uncircumcision - What's the difference?

circumcision | uncircumcision |

As nouns the difference between circumcision and uncircumcision

is that circumcision is the act of excising or amputating the prepuce (the foreskin on penises, the clitoral hood on clitorises) while uncircumcision is absence of circumcision; not being circumcised.

circumcision

English

(wikipedia circumcision)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of excising or amputating the prepuce (the foreskin on penises, the clitoral hood on clitorises)
  • The act of excising tissue from the vulva of the female.

    • Synonyms

    * circ (informal) * female genital mutilation

    Related terms

    * circumcise, circumcize * male circumcision * female circumcision

    uncircumcision

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Absence of circumcision; not being circumcised.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1812, author=Andrew Lee, title=Sermons on Various Important Subjects, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision ; but faith which worketh by love." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1856, author=Samuel Simon Schmucker, title=American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}