resurrectionism
English
Etymology
resurrection + -ism
Noun
resurrectionism (uncountable)
- Belief in, or the event of, a person being resurrected from the dead.
- (historical) Graverobbing.
- 2011, Martin Conaghan, Burke & Hare
- Ironically, resurrectionism was not a crime in the 1800s, and both men would never have fallen foul of the law if graverobbing was their only enterprise; certainly, Burke would never have received the death penalty.
- 2011, Martin Conaghan, Burke & Hare