anastasis

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Moron anastasis, "The Resurrection of Fools," the design of which was to show "that nobody ever counterfeited folly."

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀνάστασ, σ1ις, a raising up or rising up, from ἀνιστάναι, stand up.
 

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