Rĕs'ur-rĕc'tion, n.
n. [Fr. résurrection, Lat. resurrectio, from Lat. resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again, from re, again, and surgere, to rise.]
- A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
- Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life.
Nor after resurrection shall he stay Longer on earth. Milton.
Sense 3. The period of time which is considered as following a general rising from the dead; the future state.
In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage. Matt. xxii. 30.