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单词 resurrection man
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resurrection man

noun historical
A person who illicitly retrieved corpses for dissection from rivers, scenes of disaster, or burial grounds.The republican martyr's glorification of suffering distinguishes him from the loyalist resurrection man of Derry's Bond Street wall mural....
  • Body snatchers (‘grave-robbers’ or ‘resurrection men’) generally obtained fresh corpses from new graves.
  • A Victorian author described him ‘hobnobbing with the resurrection men’.
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