The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hagiographer
Hagiographer \Ha`gi*og"ra*pher\ (-f[~e]r), n.
One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of
the saints.
--Shipley.
Wiktionary
hagiographer
n. 1 someone who writes the biography of a saint 2 someone who writes praising and flattering things about a person (as if that person ''were'' a saint)
WordNet
hagiographer
n. the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography [syn: hagiographist, hagiologist]
Usage examples of "hagiographer".
His hagiographers today present him as the plucky, courageous, little guy who stood up to world communism and led America into a new age of cosmopolitan internationalism.
To Bulgarians, this changes nothing: "The land remembers every one, even the murdered unborn babies who have no names," cried MacDermott, Delchev's pro-Bulgarian hagiographer.