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resurrectionist

[ rez-uh-rek-shuh-nist ]

noun

  1. a person who brings something to life or view again.
  2. a believer in resurrection.
  3. Also called resurrection man. a person who exhumes and steals dead bodies, especially for dissection; body snatcher.


resurrectionist

/ ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃənɪst /

noun

  1. facetious.
    (formerly) a body snatcher
  2. a member of an Anglican religious community founded in 1892
  3. a person who believes in the Resurrection
“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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of resurrectionist1

First recorded in 1770–80; resurrection + -ist
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Example Sentences

One of these handed over portions of a Diary he had kept during his resurrectionist days.

You have been a resurrectionist (as it is called) I understand?

His regular trade, followed before he took to the life of resurrectionist, was that of an engraver.

This put an end for a time to the resurrectionist fever in Glasgow, but it was shrewdly suspected that other cases occurred.

A record of the share which the doctors themselves took in the resurrectionist work has not been well preserved.

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