uncircumcision

[ uhn-sur-kuhm-sizh-uhn ]

noun

1. the state or condition of being uncircumcised.
2. people who are not circumcised; gentiles. Romans 2:26.

uncircumcision

/ ˌʌnsɜːkəmˈsɪʒən /

noun

1. New Testament the state of being uncircumcised

Word History and Origins

Origin of uncircumcision¹

First recorded in 1520–30; un- ¹ + circumcision

Example Sentences

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From Slate

"Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision nothing; only faith working through love."

From Project Gutenberg

To appreciate the enlargement which has come to Christianity beyond its merely 'apostolic' form through the independent development of the Greek churches in this second period we must realize that Paul's 'gospel of the uncircumcision' differed in respect to promise as well as law.

From Project Gutenberg

The rest of the world—Philistines or Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, or Barbarians, it mattered not—were “the Uncircumcision.”

From Project Gutenberg

How superficial this distinction was in point of fact, and how false the assumption of moral superiority it implied in the existing condition of Judaism, St Paul indicates by saying, “those who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in flesh, wrought by human hands.”

From Project Gutenberg