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resurrectionism

resurrectionism noun: belief in, or the event of, a person being resurrected from the dead.

Noun

resurrectionism (uncountable)

  1. Belief in, or the event of, a person being resurrected from the dead.
  2. (historical) Graverobbing.
    • 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.2011, Martin Conaghan, Burke & Hare

Origin of resurrectionism

From resurrection + -ism.

Questions about resurrectionism

What does resurrectionism mean?
Resurrectionism means belief in, or the event of, a person being resurrected from the dead.
What part of speech is resurrectionism?
Resurrectionism is a noun.

Words near resurrectionism in the dictionary

  1. resurrectioners
  2. resurrectionise
  3. resurrectionised
  4. resurrectionises
  5. resurrectionising
  6. resurrectionism
  7. resurrectionist
  8. resurrectionists
  9. resurrectionize
  10. resurrectionized
  11. resurrectionizes

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