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A biography that idealizes or idolizes the person
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hagiography
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The study of saints. 2 (context countable English) A biography of a saint. 3 (context countable English) A biography which expresses reverence and respect for its subject. 4 (context pejorative English) A biography which ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"writing of saints' lives," 1821, from Greek hagios "holy" (see hagiology ) + -graphy . Related: Hagiographic (1819); hagiographical (1580s); hagiographer (1650s).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader. The term hagiography may be used to refer to the biography of a saint or highly developed spiritual being in any of the world's spiritual traditions. Christian hagiographies focus on the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Along with the national myth comes a rich tradition of hagiography . ▪ But soon the facts crowd in and the film spirals into hagiography . ▪ Closer to such history in terms of the narrative skill required is hagiography . ▪ For ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hagiography \Ha`gi*og"ra*phy\ (-f[y^]; 277), n. Same as Hagiographa .
Usage examples of hagiography.
Being an Amatl Indian, Padre Luis had long been able to accord native Toltecan beliefs with the pageantry and hagiography of Catholicism.
Ontogeny recapitulates cosmogeny -- what is it but to say that proctoscopy repeats hagiography?
In Skullion’s social hagiography two names stood out as the epitome of the effeteness he worshipped.
Medieval hagiography makes her the great discoverer of relics, who brought the heads of the three Wise Men to Cologne, the Robe Jesus wore to Trier, and the True Cross to Rome.