Meaning of resurrection man | Babel Free
Definitions
A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
Examples
“Persons (under the name⟳ of resurrection-men) continue⟳ their business, getting from 1 guinea to 5 or 6, according to the value set⟳ upon the corpse they take⟳ up.”
“Earlier exhumations seem to have⟳ caused very little popular concern⟳;... but later... the trade⟳ of ‘resurrection man’ became commoner, and attracted the lowest dregs of the vicious classes.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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