# resurrectionist

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
2. A believer in a future bodily resurrection.
3. One who resurrects an abandoned idea, practice, etc.; a revivalist.
4. One who sells repaired or reconditioned goods; a refurbisher.
5. A racehorse that (once or numerously) suddenly recovers its stamina midrace.

## Etymology
From resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + -ist (“forms agents of cause; forms adherents of a belief”), coined alongside resurrection man.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/resurrectionist