Meaning of resurrection man | Babel Free
Definitions
A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
euphemistic, historical
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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