Surrection

Quick meaning: Surrection is a noun meaning (rare, nonce word) A rising.

Meaning

(rare, nonce word) A rising.

Example Sentences

There is, indeed, a rising, but not a rising again. There is a surrection, but not a re-surrection.

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:[…]

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.

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.

Word Forms

• surrections

Related Words

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