Both Uses of
resurrection
in
A Thousand Acres
- All the self-consciousness I had intermittently felt over the years, that was sometimes soothed by people's friendliness and sometimes inflamed by slights that I suspected, seemed to resurrect itself whole.†
p. 246.4 *
- He gave me a long look and a slow smile, then said, "I notice he waited till we busted our butts finishing up planting before staging this resurrection."†
p. 6.7
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.