resurrectionism

English

Etymology

resurrection +‎ -ism

Noun

resurrectionism (uncountable)

  1. Belief in, or the event of, a person being resurrected from the dead.
  2. (historical) Graverobbing.
    • 2011, Martin Conaghan, Burke & Hare
      Ironically, resurrectionism was not a crime in the 1800s, and both men would never have fallen foul of the law if graverobbing was their only enterprise; certainly, Burke would never have received the death penalty.
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