Insurrection vs. Resurrection

Insurrectionnoun

A violent uprising of part or all of a national population against the government or other authority; a mutiny; a rebellion.

Resurrectionnoun

The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.

Insurrectionnoun

A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state.

‘It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.’;

Resurrectionnoun

(archaic) bodysnatching

Insurrectionnoun

A rising in mass to oppose an enemy.

‘I say again,In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senateThe cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition.’; ‘Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings.’; ‘He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts.’; ‘Though of their names in heavenly records nowBe no memorial, blotted out and razedBy their rebellion from the books of life.’;

Resurrectionnoun

A rising again; the resumption of vigor.

Insurrectionnoun

organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

Resurrectionnoun

Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment.

‘Nor after resurrection shall he stayLonger on earth.’;

Resurrectionnoun

State of being risen from the dead; future state.

‘In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage.’;

Resurrectionnoun

The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.

‘I am the resurrection, and the life.’;

Resurrectionnoun

(New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion

Resurrectionnoun

revival from inactivity and disuse;

‘it produced a resurrection of hope’;

Resurrection

Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. In a number of religions, a dying-and-rising god is a deity which dies and resurrects.