resurrectionist
/ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃənɪst/
noun
- A person who believes in or advocates for the doctrine of resurrection, especially in a religious context.
- As a devout resurrectionist, she believed in life after death.
- The early Christians were often called resurrectionists because of their central belief.
- The debate between resurrectionists and skeptics continued for centuries.
- A person who illegally exhumes bodies from graves, especially for medical dissection; a body snatcher (historical).
- The graveyard had to be guarded at night to prevent resurrectionists from stealing bodies.
- The novel tells the story of a resurrectionist who sells corpses to doctors.
- In the 19th century, resurrectionists supplied cadavers to anatomy schools.
- A person who revives or restores something that was old, forgotten, or out of use.
- The musician was a resurrectionist of traditional folk songs, bringing them to modern audiences.
- The historian was a resurrectionist of lost recipes from the medieval period.
- She acted as a resurrectionist for the abandoned theater, organizing its renovation.
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