resurrectionist

[ rez-uh-rek-shuh-nist ]

noun

1. a person who brings something to life or view again.
2. a believer in resurrection.
3. Also called resurrection man. a person who exhumes and steals dead bodies, especially for dissection; body snatcher.

resurrectionist

/ ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃənɪst /

noun

1. facetious.
   (formerly) a body snatcher
2. a member of an Anglican religious community founded in 1892
3. a person who believes in the Resurrection

Word History and Origins

Origin of resurrectionist¹

First recorded in 1770–80; resurrection + -ist

Example Sentences

One of these handed over portions of a Diary he had kept during his resurrectionist days.

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You have been a resurrectionist (as it is called) I understand?

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His regular trade, followed before he took to the life of resurrectionist, was that of an engraver.

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This put an end for a time to the resurrectionist fever in Glasgow, but it was shrewdly suspected that other cases occurred.

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A record of the share which the doctors themselves took in the resurrectionist work has not been well preserved.

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