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    Brith
    noun
    the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child eight days after his birth.
  • brith
    brith
    noun
    a variant of bris

Brith

American  
[breet, bris, bris, brit] / brit, brɪs, brɪs, brɪt /
Or Berith,

noun

Hebrew.
  1. the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child eight days after his birth.


brith British  
/ brit /

noun

  1. a variant of bris

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Brith

bərīth literally, covenant

Example Sentences

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"The bottom line is that this unit, the 14th SS unit, were Nazis," B'nai Brith Canada leader Michael Mostyn told the BBC.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2023

Club members would go every year on a trip to Blackpool to stay in the hotel owned by Welsh singing duo Tony and Aloma, who came to sing in Tŷ Brith in 1984.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2023

“We have engaged security and we’re looking into what else we need to do,” said Doris Pinski, president of Brith Sholom, Erie’s Conservative Jewish congregation.

From Washington Times • Mar. 2, 2019

The latest show comes from renowned Welsh artist Marc Rees, who has previously worked with physical theatre companies Brith Gof, Earthfall and DV8 and who recently won the Wales bid for the cultural Olympiad.

From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2010

And from the top of Brith, so high and wondrous steep Where Dinas Emris stood, showed where the serpents fought The white that tore the red, for whence the prophet taught The Britons' sad decay.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

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