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- noun Plural form of
prepuce .
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Examples
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It only refers to small penises with disproportionately large prepuces.
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Presentable, dashing in his long tresses, articulate, mature in his approach in mentioning severed prepuces, pulling classic grimaces, simultaneously camp and not camp.
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The islanders, Mulligan said to Haines casually, speak frequently of the collector of prepuces. —
Ulysses 2003
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And they made themselves prepuces, and departed from the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathens, and were sold to do evil:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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And they made themselves prepuces, and departed from the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathens, and were sold to do evil:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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And they made themselves prepuces, and departed from the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathens, and were sold to do evil:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 45: 1 Machabees The Challoner Revision
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And they made themselves prepuces, and departed from the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathens, and were sold to do evil:
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-- The islanders, Mulligan said to Haines casually, speak frequently of the collector of prepuces.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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In his ` ` History of Circumcision, '' Remondino says that among the modern Berbers it is not unusual for a warrior to exhibit virile members of persons he has slain; he also says that, according to Bergman, the Israelites practiced preputial mutilations; David brought 200 prepuces of the Philistines to Saul.
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He argues that, whereas many have made that Old Testament passage to read "two hundred prepuces," it should have read "two hundred virile members" which David and his companions had cut off from the Philistines, the word _orloth_ meaning the virile member, and not the prepuce.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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