Definitions

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  • noun One who carries out circumcision.

Etymologies

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circumcise +‎ -or

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Examples

  • "The law is not enforced because to enforce it, you have to first see it (mutilation) happening; people have to inform on the circumcisor and she has to be caught in the act," says Amadou.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • In this case, a New York mohel, or Jewish ritual circumcisor, performed the operation in the baby's home, Llewellyn said.

    Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?) 2010

  • "During the excision I lost a lot of blood, and while the pain was convulsing me the woman there (the circumcisor) said, 'Stop crying, your case is still tolerable.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Thank God, I'm making a lot more money selling spices than I was as a circumcisor, "Himadou, who hails from the southern region of Tillaberi, told IPS.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • HIV/Aids with the use of non-sterilized instruments by the circumcisor, "Dr Bako Bagassi of the Niamey-based National

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

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