Surrection

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A rising. countable, nonce-word, rare, uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

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

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