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Resurrection man

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber. euphemistic, historical

    "Persons (under the name of resurrection-men) continue their business, getting from 1 guinea to 5 or 6, according to the value set upon the corpse they take up."

Etymology

resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + man

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