(a.) Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impious.
(a.) Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) At a press conference following the judgment, Ramdev invited the gay community to his yoga ashram where he said he would "cure them of homosexuality", which he described as "unnatural, uncivilised, immoral, irreligious and abnormal".
(2) Fear of stigma, contact with the irreligious world, "yihud" with opposite sex therapists, suspicion of irreligious healers of the Jewish "nefesh", and seeing such a need as a sign of weakness of faith all serve to deter the religious patient from seeking help.
(3) The notion that The Catcher in the Rye is an immoral and irreligious work has largely given way to the antithetical view – that Salinger's chief impulse is specifically religious.
(4) Those who become radicalised typically come from irreligious backgrounds.
(5) Misconceptions about prostitutes pointed out by other authors (Pomeroy, 1965; Gebhard, 1969), such as marked infertility, irreligiousness, and homosexuality, are also contested by this study.
(6) Even though Britain is one of the most irreligious countries on Earth, with just one in 10 attending church each week and a quarter of Britons having no religious beliefs, the Church of England still runs one in four primary and secondary schools in England, while its bishops sit in the House of Lords, making Britain the only country – other than Iran – to have automatically unelected clerics sitting in the legislature.
(7) Caravaggio’s religious paintings give the lie to his irreligious life.
(8) Not that Zionism was ever a totally irreligious movement.
(9) The Catholic church has its own problems, but it shares its principal one with Protestants: Britain is irreligious, if not yet atheist.
(10) This power of the postbag has awed parliamentarians in Holyrood and Westminster, sometimes cowing ministers into backing down, as when Labour dropped plans to force faiths schools to offer some places to irreligious pupils.
Uncircumcised
Definition:
(n.) Not circumcised; hence, not of the Israelites.
Example Sentences:
(1) To me, now, President Jacob Zuma is a boy because he is an uncircumcised Zulu."
(2) Cofactors for heterosexual transmission are vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse, presence of AIDS symptomatic disease, STDs (especially genital ulcers),and an uncircumcised penis.
(3) Both balanitis (6% vs 3%) and irritation (4% vs 1%) were more frequent among the uncircumcised children, but the difference was not statistically significant.
(4) In the analysis, she attained a gradual reorganization of adaptive functions which allowed identification with the father through her work, reconciliation with the rivalrous siblings, and enjoyment of her female sexuality in heterosexual intercourse with the use of a fetishistic requirement that the man be uncircumcised.
(5) The frequencies of urinary tract infection (P less than .0001) and bacteremia (P less than .0002) were significantly higher in the uncircumcised boys.
(6) All patients with non-syphilitic spirochaetal infection were uncircumcised.
(7) EQ (erythroplasia of Queyrat) manifests itself by single or multiple asymptomatic papules or plaques on the glans penis, or periurethrally, predominantly in uncircumcised men, age range from twenty to eighty years of age.
(8) All of the cases were uncircumcised, vs 32% of controls.
(9) A form-fitting glans condom has been developed for use in small uncircumcised males with neurogenic bladders to avoid the problems inherent with diapers.
(10) In contrast, cultures from the coronal sulcus detected most of the colonized uncircumcised men (49 of 59; 83%).
(11) These results support the recommendation that good hygiene can offer many of the advantages of circumcision and highlight the need for clear, early instructions on hygiene to uncircumcised patients.
(12) Because the majority of these boys have been uncircumcised, circumcision seems advisable.
(13) 2 groups of full-term infants (14 uncircumcised males, 15 females), equally distributed along several physical and demographic variables, served as subjects.
(14) Caregivers from two nursing homes were asked their opinions about and experiences with caring for uncircumcised males.
(15) The majority of the lesions occurred on the shaft of the penis and on the foreskin of uncircumcised men.
(16) These were derived from the records of a country-wide biopsy service over the 5-year period 1964-68.Where circumcision is practised the incidence of this tumour is very low.However, the geographical variation also showed marked differences in the uncircumcised, regardless of tribal antecedents and sometimes over quite small distances.It is suggested, therefore, that in Uganda other aetiological factors apart from circumcision are operative and that these factors vary with geographical location rather than with tribal affiliation.
(17) Uncircumcised formula-fed male infants with reflux seemed to be at special risk for infection.
(18) Uncircumcised boys had significantly higher total colony counts (p less than 0.003) at all ages except 12 months.
(19) A significantly greater proportion of Negroes were uncircumcised, possibly explaining the racial difference.
(20) Escherichia coli was present significantly more often (p less than 0.01) in the urethras of uncircumcised boys at 2 weeks, 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months.