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resurrection

resurrection

14 6.5
A return to life after death, often in many religions
  • noun
  • /ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃən/
translation icon : resurrección
  • Many Christians celebrate Easter as the day of Jesus' resurrection from the dead.
  • death and resurrection
  • resurrection and everlasting life
  • bodily resurrection

This death is therefore its resurrection as spirit.

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Examples

  • Do you believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting?

  • You just witnessed a resurrection.

  • This death is therefore its resurrection as spirit.

  • So there is a death and resurrection involved.

  • For you are the resurrection and the life.

  • All of it; only then will the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ make any sense.

    Blog text (26)
  • Which body, therefore, will a human being possess at the moment of resurrection?

    Academic text (2005)
  • And they proclaim not the assumption of Jesus, but the resurrection of Jesus.

  • That being said, if Christ's resurrection means that I get to be with Debbie again, I have no problem being happy about that.

  • We therefore commit his body to the deep to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body when the sea shall give up her dead.

Synonyms

reanimation
vsresurrection
6 7.9

The act of bringing someone back to life or to consciousness

focuses on a religious or spiritual return rather than a deliberate act
reviviscence
vsresurrection
  • Specialized
9.9

A return to life, being awake, or normal activity

is specifically about returning to life in a religious or spiritual sense
anastasis
vsresurrection
  • Specialized
9.9

A way cells recover after starting to die

applies only to religious or spiritual return, not to cellular recovery

Antonyms

1.0

The end of a living thing's life

150 4.4

The dying out of a species so it no longer exists

Compounds

An event when Jesus rose from the dead three days after his death on a cross

The event when Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after he died on the cross

An event when Jesus rises from the dead three days after his death on the cross

A fern that grows on trees or rocks and appears dead when dry but comes back to life after rain

9.9

A person who steals dead bodies from graves to sell them to doctors

A small desert plant that looks dead when dry but turns green when it gets water

How Revived

resurrection
14 6.5
resuscitation
  • Specialized
22 6.1
reviviscence
  • Specialized
9.9
revival
52 4.2
reawakening
3 4.1
resurgence
39 6.6
reappearance
7 3.7

Surface Forms

resurrection singular
resurrections plural

Morphology

resurrection = resurrect (transparent) = resurrect + ion

Clear nominalization of the verb 'resurrect' meaning 'the act of bringing back to life', directly derived by adding -ion.

Etymology

The word resurrection comes from Latin parts re- 'again' and surgere 'to rise'. So it literally means 'rising again', which is why the word is used for coming back to life, especially in religious stories.