All 3 Uses of
resurrection
in
Gone with the Wind
- As she walked along Peachtree, followed by the waddling Mammy, she found the sidewalks just as crowded as they were at the height of the war and there was the same air of rush and bustle about the resurrecting town which had made her blood sing when she came here, so long ago, on her first visit to Aunt Pitty.†
Chpt 4.33
- I am the Resurrection and the Life ...and whosoever ....believeth in Me shall never die.†
Chpt 4.40 *
- Atlanta had always been musical and loved good music, despite the sneering comments of sister cities of the South concerning the town's lack of culture, and there was now an enthusiastic resurrection of interest that grew stronger as the times grew harder and more tense.†
Chpt 4.41
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.