Sentence:  This was the classic age of all the various exhumations, restorations, and resurrections; it was a retrospective time — a time of ghosts and <WSD>Lazaruses</WSD>, more or less decomposed. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A person who was dead and has been resurrected; a dead person who could potentially be resurrected; "perhaps used metaphorically or hypothetically".