surrectionEtymologyFrom Latin surrēctiō. Obsolete except as nonce word after resurrection. Compare Middle English surreccion (“insurrection, rebellion”).surrection means A rising. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounA rising.“I well remember those texts, Col. iii, 1, and Ephes. ii, 5, and many similar places; but these mention only quickening, and rising, and raising: there is mention of surrection, but not of re-surrection, much less of a first resurrection.”