resurrectionaladj.
/ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃn̩(ə)l/, /ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃ(ə)nəl/ Of, relating to, or concerned with resurrection.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [adjective] > relating to
resurrectivea1657
redivival1744
resurrectionary1813
resurrectional1831
1831 J. Allport tr. J. Davenant Expos. Epist. St. Paul I. 226 We understand that death is not now to be feared by Christians; who are entitled to expect by-and-by a certain new and glorious resurrectional birth [L. nativitas resurrectionis].
1860 All Year Round 388 Spallanzani especially..gave an immense celebrity to the resurrectional hypothesis.
1899 Q. Rev. Apr. 430 With the frippery of despair..did such resurrectional ghosts actually invest themselves.
1915 H. Ellis Diary 8 Apr. in Fountain of Life (1924) 238 The Easter resurrectional festival of the earth's new life which may well be the oldest of human religious rites.
1975 I. Illich Med. Nemesis viii. 125 Those Greek Church Fathers according to whom Adam had a..resurrectional body before he transgressed.
2008 A. Anderson tr. V. I. Stoichita Pygmalion Effect 6 The animating, or even resurrectional, powers of art in general and music in particular.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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