All 7 Uses of
resurrection
in
Moby Dick
- I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.†
Chpt 7-9
- Tell 'em it's the resurrection; they must kiss their last, and come to judgment.†
Chpt 40-42
- Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be.†
Chpt 49-51
- And so they'll say in the resurrection, when they come to fish up this old mast, and find a doubloon lodged in it, with bedded oysters for the shaggy bark.†
Chpt 97-99
- bear a hand there with those screws, and let's finish it before the resurrection fellow comes a-calling with his horn for all legs, true or false, as brewery-men go round collecting old beer barrels, to fill 'em up again.†
Chpt 106-108
- God"—advancing towards the hammock with uplifted hands—"may the resurrection and the life—"†
Chpt 130-132
Definitions:
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(1)
(resurrection as in: resurrection of a dream) to rise again after failure, inactivity, or disuse
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
As a proper noun, Christians use The Resurrection to refer to their belief that Jesus arose from the dead three days after he was killed. In the major monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) Resurrection is also used to refer to the rising of the dead on Judgment Day.