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Definition of Resurrection

1. Noun. (New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion.

2. Noun. A revival from inactivity and disuse. "It produced a resurrection of hope"

Definition of Resurrection

1. n. A rising again; the resumption of vigor.

Definition of Resurrection

1. Noun. The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again. ¹

2. Noun. (Christianity) '''The Resurrection''': The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Resurrection

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Medical Definition of Resurrection

1. 1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor. 2. Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment. "Nor after resurrection shall he stay Longer on earth." (Milton) 3. State of being risen from the dead; future state. "In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage." (Matt. Xxii. 30) 4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead. "I am the resurrection, and the life." (John xi. 25) Cross of the resurrection, a slender cross with a pennant floating from the junction of the bars. 5. Resurrection plant, a name given to several species of Selaginella (as S. Convoluta and S. Lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See Rose. Origin: F. Resurrection, L. Resurrectio, fr. Resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref. Re- re- + surgere to rise. See Source. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Resurrection

resurfacer resurfacers resurfaces resurfacing resurge resurged resurgence resurgences resurgent resurges

resurging resurgings resurrect resurrected resurrecting resurrection resurrection fern resurrection plant resurrectional resurrectionist

resurrectionists resurrectionize resurrectionized resurrectionizes resurrectionizing resurrections resurrector resurrectors resurrects resurvey

Literary usage of Resurrection

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Thirdly, the denial of the historical certainty of Christ's Resurrection involves ... A. Dogma of Hie Resurrection.—The creeds and professions of faith and ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The Sadducees "said there was no resurrection," and denied even the immortality of the soul ... "At the resurrection, to whom of the seven will she be wife? ..."

3. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"doctrine of a general resurrection of both righteous and wicked, ... the Palestinian doctrine of bodily resurrection, both of the individual and of the ..."

4. An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke (1838)
"The resurrection of the dead, 1 acknowledge to be an article of the Christian faith : but that the resurrection of the same body, in your lordship's sense ..."

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