biographical

biography (baɪˈɒɡrəfɪ)

—n , pl -phies
1.	an account of a person's life by another
2.	such accounts collectively

bi'ographer

—n

biographical

—*adj*

bio'graphic

—*adj*

bio'graphically

—*adv*

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Example sentences

Thirteen wry biographical essays about people, once famous, who have

disappeared from memory.

The book consists of two sets of three chapters, each a biographical profile.

No biographical nugget will be considered irrelevant if it serves this purpose.

In between the social and historical dramas are the popular sketch comedy shows

and biographical series.

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"So little are the Homeric heroes presented as developing or having developed, that most of them—Nestor, Agamemnon, Achilles—appear to be of an age fixed from the very first. Even Odysseus, in whose case the long lapse of time and the many events which occurred offer so much opportunity for biographical development, shows almost nothing of it. Odysseus on his return is exactly the same as he was when he left Ithaca two decades earlier. But what a road, what a fate, lie between the Jacob who cheated his father out of his blessing by a wild beast!—between David the harp player, persecuted by his lord's jealousy, and the king, surrounded by violent intrigues, whom Abishag the Shunnamite warmed in his bed, and he knew her not! The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality; and it is this history of a personality which the Old Testament presents to us as the formation undergone by those whom God has chosen as his examples."

-Erich Auerbach

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