surrection

surrection noun: a rising.

Noun

surrection (countable and uncountable, plural surrections)

(nonce-word, rare) A rising.
- I well remember those texts, Col. iii, 1, and Ephes. ii, 5, and many similar places; but these mention only quickening, and rising, and raising: there is mention of surrection, but not of re-surrection, much less of a first resurrection.1654, Nathaniel Homes, “Old Testament Evidence”, in The Resurrection Revealed, or The Dawning of the Day-Star, London: Simpkin and Marshall, published 1833, page 54
- As there muſt be a day of judgment, 2 Cor. 5. 10. ſo there muſt be a Reſurrection of the body; not only there may be, but there muſt be, and of the ſame body; not only the ſame ſpecifical, but the ſame numerical body: Otherwiſe it were not a Reſurrection, bu^([sic]) a Surrection; not a...1676, “Of the Resurrection”, in The Morning Exercise Methodized; or Certain Chief Heads and Points of the Christian Religion Opened and Improved in Divers Sermons, by Several Ministers of the City of...

There is a surrection, but not a re-surrection.1856 May, D. D. Whedon, “The Resurrection, 1 Cor. xv”, in The Ladies’ Repository, volume XVI, number 17, page 309, column 1:
The name logistic itself is not a resurrection, but a surrection, for it is an almost wholly disused word revived in an entirely new and useless meaning:[…]1909, The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, page 611:
What Upanishadic Man is interested in is not a return to the old familiar life, not a “new” old life; not a resurrection, but a “surrection,” an ascent to the heights of real and everlasting life.2016, Raimon Panikkar, edited by Milena Carrara Pavan, Hinduism; Part One: The Vedic Experience: Mantramanjari (Opera Omnia; volume IV.1)...

plural	surrections

From Latin surrēctiō. Obsolete except as nonce word after resurrection. Compare Middle English surreccion (“insurrection, rebellion”).

What does surrection mean?: Surrection means a rising.
How do you use surrection in a sentence?: There is a surrection, but not a re-surrection.
What part of speech is surrection?: Surrection is a noun.
What is the plural of surrection?: The plural of surrection is surrections.

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