resurrection

[ rez-uh-rek-shuh n ]

/ ˌrɛz əˈrɛk ʃən /

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noun

the act of rising from the dead.

(initial capital letter) the rising of Christ after His death and burial.

(initial capital letter) the rising of the dead on Judgment Day.

the state of those risen from the dead.

a rising again, as from decay, disuse, etc.; revival.

Christian Science. a rising above mortality through the understanding of spiritual life as demonstrated by Jesus Christ.

Nearby words

resurgam, resurge, resurgence, resurgent, resurrect, resurrection, resurrection fern, resurrection plant, resurrectionary, resurrectionism, resurrectionist

Origin of resurrection

1250–1300; Middle English (< Old French) < Latin resurrēctiōn- (stem of resurrēctiō) the Easter church-festival, equivalent to resurrēct(us) (past participle of resurgere to rise again; see resurge) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

res·ur·rec·tion·al, adjectiveres·ur·rec·tive, adjectivenon·res·ur·rec·tion, nounnon·res·ur·rec·tion·al, adjective

post·res·ur·rec·tion, nounpost·res·ur·rec·tion·al, adjective

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Examples from the Web for resurrection

The most-watched dramas of the 2013-2014 season were NCIS, NCIS: LA, Person of Interest, Blue Bloods, and Resurrection.
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Their resurrection of the Congo Village comes just as Norway celebrates the 200th birthday of its constitution.
Norway’s Controversial Human Zoo Is Back|Nina Strochlic|May 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is the moral equivalent of Jesse Jackson saying that the Tea Party “is the resurrection of the Confederacy.”
The Conservatives' Great Black Hope|Evan Gahr|May 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What do we care for Marxism or monarchism, the resurrection of Holy Russia or the Idea of the Common Fate?
This 1979 Novel Predicted Putin’s Invasion Of Crimea|Michael Weiss|May 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A resurrection would be a miracle and as such would defy all “probability.”
Do We Know if There Was Really An Empty Tomb?|Bart D. Ehrman|April 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The resurrection is a man's soul coming alive to the soul of creation—God's soul.
Real Folks|Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
Of course He will be after the resurrection, in the new heaven and the new earth, where there will be no sin.
Sermons on National Subjects|Charles Kingsley
The new life cannot grow and break forth in resurrection power, cannot bring forth fruit, but as it grows in holiness.
Holy in Christ|Andrew Murray
There will be at this time a resurrection of God's people who have died.
Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation|S. D. Gordon
We cannot accept the Resurrection as though it were an after-thought to a bitterly felt death.
God The Invisible King|Herbert George Wells

British Dictionary definitions for resurrection (1 of 2)

resurrection

/ (ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃən) /

noun

a supposed act or instance of a dead person coming back to life

belief in the possibility of this as part of a religious or mystical system

the condition of those who have risen from the deadwe shall all live in the resurrection

the revival of somethinga resurrection of an old story

Derived Formsresurrectional or resurrectionary, adjective

Word Origin for resurrection

C13: via Old French from Late Latin resurrectiō, from Latin resurgere to rise again; see resurge

British Dictionary definitions for resurrection (2 of 2)

Resurrection

/ (ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃən) /

noun Christian theol

the rising again of Christ from the tomb three days after his death

the rising again from the dead of all mankind at the Last Judgment

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Word Origin and History for resurrection

resurrection

c.1300, originally the name of a Church festival commemorating Christ's rising from death, from Anglo-French resurrectiun, Old French resurrection "the Resurrection of Christ" (12c.) and directly from Church Latin resurrectionem (nominative resurrectio) "a rising again from the dead," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin resurgere "rise again, appear again" (see resurgent). Replaced Old English æriste.

Generalized sense of "revival" is from 1640s. Also used in Middle English of the rising again of the dead on the Last Day (c.1300). Resurrectionist, euphemism for "grave-robber" is attested from 1776. Resurrection pie was mid-19c. English schoolboy slang for a pie made from leftovers of previous meals; first attested 1831 as a Sheffield dialect term.

There was a dreadful pie for dinner every Monday; a meat-pie with a stony crust that did not break; but split into scaly layers, with horrible lumps of gristle inside, and such strings of sinew (alternated by lumps of flabby fat) as a ghoule might use as a rosary. We called it kitten pie--resurrection pie--rag pie--dead man's pie. We cursed it by night we cursed it by day; we wouldn't stand it, we said; we would write to our friends; we would go to sea. ["How I Went to Sea," "Harper's Magazine," December 1852]

Culture definitions for resurrection

Resurrection

The rising of Jesus from the tomb after his death; a central and distinctive belief of the Christian faith. The Gospels state that after Jesus was crucified and lay in a tomb between Friday evening and Sunday morning, he rose, in body as well as in spirit, and appeared alive to his followers. His resurrection is the basis for the Christian belief that not only Jesus but all Christians will triumph over death. Christians celebrate the Resurrection on Easter Sunday.

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