rare. Also 5 surreccioun, -ecion, 6 -eccyon, -eccion, -exyon. [ad. late L. surrectio, -ōnem, n. of action f. surrect-, surgĕre to rise. Cf. OF. surrection.]
† 1. A rising in rebellion, insurrection. Obs.
c. 1418. Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 247. To shape sodeyn surreccioun Agaynst oure liege lord kynge.
1516. in Arnolde, Chron. (1811), p. l. Ye surrexyon of vacabondis, and prentysys agaynst straungers.
1528. Ld. Sandys, Let. Wolsey, 9 March (Publ. Rec. Off.). If there be eny such surreccion I shall doo the best may lye in me to pacifie theym.
2. Rising (in general). Obs. exc. as nonce-wd. after resurrection.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.), 191. The mornyng was past, But Afrycus Auster made surreccion, Blowyng his bellowes.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouers Bk. Physicke, 55/2. Sepulte the same agaynste the surrection of the Sunne.
1845. Brownson, Wks., V. 342. It would not be a re-surrection, but a simple surrection.