• Anti-circumcisionist

    Origin

    - + anti + - + ist

    Full definition of anti-circumcisionist

    Noun

    anti-circumcisionist

    (plural anti-circumcisionists)
    1. One who opposes male infant circumcision.
      • 1986, Bernard Ohanian, "Primal Cut: The Fight Over Circumcision", Mother Jones, April/May 1986, page 28:Some anti-circumcisionists would outlaw the practice of infant circumcision, even for religious reasons.
      • 1999, Godfrey B. Tangwa, "Circumcision: An African Point of View", in Male and Female Circumcision (eds. George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges, & Marilyn Fayre Milos), Kluwer Academic (1999), , page 183:Pro-circumcisionists have marshalled as many arguments in its favour as anti-circumcisionists have marshalled against it.
      • 2003, Suzanne LaFont, Constructing Sexualities: Readings in Sexuality, Gender, and Culture, Prentice Hall (2003), , page 131:Entrenched customs die hard, and the task facing anti-circumcisionists is daunting. They can take heart, however, from the precedents: foot binding and widow burning, once widespread in China and India, respectively, have been abolished.
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