hagiography
the writing and critical study of the lives of the saints; hagiology.
a biography that treats the person with excessive or undue admiration.
Origin of hagiography
1Other words from hagiography
- hag·i·o·graph·ic [hag-ee-uh-graf-ik, hey-jee-], /ˌhæg i əˈgræf ɪk, ˌheɪ dʒi-/, hag·i·o·graph·i·cal, adjective
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How to use hagiography in a sentence
This movie is not a hagiography, and it stops short of treating Larson like a genius.
The intertwined legacies of Jonathan Larson and Lin-Manuel Miranda | Constance Grady | November 19, 2021 | VoxBirdsall gives us a portrait of Beard that is neither a take-down nor hagiography.
She wants a “hagiography,” and the conflicts and confusions that ensue provide The Last Word with its comic momentum.
We Could Be King is, of course, part of a larger emergent genre, that of the high school football hagiography.
Two New Films Preach Our Nation’s Corrosive Gridiron Gospel | Steve Almond | September 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSurfing on an ocean of media hagiography, Christie seemed unbeatable just when it was time for Democrats to declare themselves.
The Wrong Election Takeaways From Christie’s Win, Virginia, and More | Michael Tomasky | November 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
And thank God, given the current glut of baseball hagiography on the market.
This Is What Baseball Looks Like in the Lowliest Minor Leagues | Nicholas Mancusi | May 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOne has to be careful not to descend into a mess of hagiography.
David Foster Wallace, Traditionalist? Considering ‘Both Flesh and Not: Essays’ | David Masciotra | November 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the great and absorbing subject of poetry in this age is hagiography.
Anglo-Saxon Literature | John Earlehagiography was now a lost branch of art, as completely lost as wood carving, and the miniatures of the old missals.
En Route | J.-K. (Joris-Karl) HuysmansThe second version, though LB calls it miraculum insolitum, is one of the commonplaces of hagiography.
The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran | AnonymousSpace would now fail us to trace the development of hagiography in the Church.
The Contemporary Review, January 1883 | VariousThe hagiography of the Eastern and the Greek church also has been the subject of important publications.
British Dictionary definitions for hagiography
/ (ˌhæɡɪˈɒɡrəfɪ) /
the writing of the lives of the saints
biography of the saints
any biography that idealizes or idolizes its subject
Derived forms of hagiography
- hagiographic (ˌhæɡɪəˈɡræfɪk) or hagiographical, adjective
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