Definition of "resurrection" []

• The act of rising from the dead or returning to life. (noun)
• The state of one who has returned to life. (noun)
• The act of bringing back to practice, notice, or use; revival. (noun)
• Christianity The rising again of Jesus on the third day after the Crucifixion. (noun)
• Christianity The rising again of the dead at the Last Judgment. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Although Scripture speaks of a first resurrection and a second death, it makes no mention of a _second resurrection_."
• "The word resurrection implies a burial, and since the Fortune article of 1937, composite assessments of the War on Cancer had virtually been buried—oddly, in an overwhelming excess of information."
• "Even now, the grace of the resurrection is at work within us!"