resurrection

From Anglo-Norman resurrectiun, from Old French resurrection (French: résurrection), from Late Latin resurrectionem (accusative of resurrectiō) from Latin resurgō (“I rise again”), from re- (“again”), + surgō (“I rise”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/, /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃn̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

resurrection (countable and uncountable, plural resurrections)

1. The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.
2. (archaic) bodysnatching

• (rising from the dead): gainrising (obsolete)

• resurrectional
• resurrectionism
• resurrectionist
• resurrection man

• resurge
• resurrect

• intercourser