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resurrection  

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  • Resurrection means rising from the dead. The word comes from Middle English, Anglo-French, and Latin (from resurrectio “the act of rising from the dead,” from resurgere “to rise from the dead,” from Latin re- “again” + surgere “to rise”). [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Resurrection]

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