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单词 infibulation
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infibulationn.

/ɪnˌfɪbjuːˈleɪʃən/
Etymology: noun of action < infibulate v., perhaps after French infibulation (16th cent. in Godefroy).
The action of infibulating; spec. the fastening of the sexual organs with a fibula or clasp.
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infibulation1650
genital mutilation1884
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 202 This art of Infibulation, or buttoning up the Prepuce with a Brasse or Silver-button.
1770 Monthly Rev. 531 Infibulation, an operation performed on young boys and singers by the Romans, who used it as a muzzle to human incontinence.
1782 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 454 He will enlarge upon virginity, impotence, castration, infibulation (never heard of before in England).
1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. v. 46 The Abbé Raynal speaking..of islanders in general, says of them: ‘It is among these people that we trace the origin of..Anthropophagy, the castration of males, the infibulation of females, late marriages, the consecration of virginity [etc.].’
1872 W. W. Reade Martyrdom of Man 448 Premature unions among children were forbidden, and sometimes prevented by infibulation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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