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hagiography

[hag-ee-og-ruh-fee, hey-jee-] Example Sentences

hag·i·og·ra·phy

[hag-ee-og-ruh-fee, hey-jee-]
noun, plural -phies.
the writing and critical study of the lives of the saints; hagiology.

Origin:
1805–15; hagio- + -graphy

hag·i·o·graph·ic [hag-ee-uh-graf-ik, hey-jee-] , hag·i·o·graph·i·cal, adjective
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Example Sentences
  • It is the kind of unauthorized hagiography that manages to be hero-worshiping and creepy at the same time.
  • He excelled at hagiography and left psychological penetration mostly in the eye of the beholder.
  • Wallenberg" is also an unabashed hagiography in which, perhaps inevitably, the characters are dwarfed by events.
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hagiography (ˌhæɡɪˈɒɡrəfɪ)
 
n , pl -phies
1.  the writing of the lives of the saints
2.  biography of the saints
3.  any biography that idealizes or idolizes its subject
 
hagiographic
 
adj
 
hagio'graphical
 
adj

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