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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
res·ur·rec·tion       [rez-uh-rek-shuhn] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the act of rising from the dead.
2.(initial capital letter) the rising of Christ after His death and burial.
3.(initial capital letter) the rising of the dead on Judgment Day.
4.the state of those risen from the dead.
5.a rising again, as from decay, disuse, etc.; revival.
6.Christian Science. a rising above mortality through the understanding of spiritual life as demonstrated by Jesus Christ.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME (< OF) < L resurréctiōn- (s. of resurréctiō) the Easter church-festival, equiv. to resurréct(us) (ptp. of resurgere to rise again; see resurge) + -iōn- -ion]

—Related forms
res·ur·rec·tion·al, adjective
res·ur·rec·tive, adjective
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res·ur·rec·tion       (rěz'ə-rěk'shən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The act of rising from the dead or returning to life.
  2. The state of one who has returned to life.
  3. The act of bringing back to practice, notice, or use; revival.
  4. Resurrection Christianity
    1. The rising again of Jesus on the third day after the Crucifixion.
    2. The rising again of the dead at the Last Judgment.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin resurrēctiō, resurrēctiōn-, from Latin resurrēctus, past participle of resurgere, to rise again; see resurge.]

res'ur·rec'tion·al adj.
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resurrection 
c.1290, from Anglo-Fr. resurrectiun, O.Fr. resurrection, from L.L. resurrectionem (nom. resurrectio) "a rising again from the dead," from pp. stem of L. resurgere "rise again" (see resurgent). Replaced O.E. æriste. Originally a Church festival commemorating Christ's rising from the dead; generalized sense of "revival" is from 1649. Also used in M.E. of the rising again of the dead on the Last Day (c.1300). Resurrect is a 1772 back-formation. Resurrection pie (1869) was schoolboy slang for a pie made from leftovers of previous meals. Resurrectionist, euphemism for "grave-robber" is attested from 1776.

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resurrection

noun
1. (New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion 
2. a revival from inactivity and disuse; "it produced a resurrection of hope" 

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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
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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Resurrection

Res`ur*rec"tion\, n. [F. r['e]surrection, L. resurrectio, fr. resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref. re- re- + surgere to rise. See Source.]

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.

Resurrection plant (Bot.), 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 under Rose.

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