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resurrectionist

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Definitions

  1. A person who illegally dug up bodies for sale to medical schools or anatomists.

Word origin

From resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + -ist (“forms agents of cause; forms adherents of a belief”), coined alongside resurrection man.

Used in a sentence

  • One... who makes open profession of dealing in dead bodies and is well known by the name of the Resurrectionist.
  • We have no taste for enacting the part of literary resurrectionists.
  • Bank is a theatrical resurrectionist: His New York-based company... specializes in unearthing and staging ‘neglected but worthy’ works.

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