Resurrection \Res`ur*rec"tion\, n. [F. r['e]surrection, L.
   resurrectio, fr. resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref.
   re- re- + surgere to rise. See Source.]
   1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
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   2. Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption
      of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
      the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of
      Judgment.
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            Nor after resurrection shall he stay
            Longer on earth.                      --Milton.
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   3. State of being risen from the dead; future state.
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            In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given
            in marriage.                          --Matt. xxii.
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   4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
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            I am the resurrection, and the life.  --John xi. 25.
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   Cross of the resurrection, a slender cross with a pennant
      floating from the junction of the bars.

   Resurrection plant (Bot.), a name given to several species
      of Selaginella (as Selaginella convoluta and
      Selaginella lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when
      dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive
      and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes
      also given to the rose of Jericho. See under Rose.
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	Resurrection
    n 1: (New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after
         the Crucifixion [syn: Resurrection, Christ's
         Resurrection, Resurrection of Christ]
    2: a revival from inactivity and disuse; "it produced a
       resurrection of hope"

	

	56 Moby Thesaurus words for "resurrection":
   apotheosis, ascension, assumption, copy, duplication, gathering,
   imitation, new birth, palingenesis, palingenesy, re-creation,
   re-formation, reanimation, rebirth, rebuilding, reconstitution,
   reconstruction, recrudescence, redesign, redoing, reedition,
   reestablishment, refashioning, refreshment, regeneracy,
   regenerateness, regeneration, regenesis, reinstitution, reissue,
   rejuvenation, rejuvenescence, remaking, renaissance, renascence,
   renewal, renovation, reorganization, repetition, reprinting,
   reproduction, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, resurgence,
   resuscitation, revision, revival, revivescence, revivescency,
   revivification, second wind, second youth, the Ascension,
   the Assumption, translation