1526. Tindale, Rom. ii. 25. But if thou breake the lawe thy circumcision is made vncircumcision.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., II. 145. Now there is no respect of Greke or Jewe, circumcision or vncircumcision.
1643–5. Milton, Divorce, II. vi. How vain then,… to exact a circumcision of flesh from an infant,… and to dispence an uncircumcision in the soul of a grown man.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., Gal. vi. 16. Placing acceptable Religion in this, and not in Circumcision or Uncircumcision.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., xxvii. Even while thou … wert fighting in the ranks of uncircumcision.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul, I. 163. The idle fancies that circumcision alone was enough to save them from God’s wrath, and that uncircumcision was worse than crime.
