hagiographer
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- noun
- /ˌheɪɡiˈɒɡrəfər/
- Formal
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hagiografo
- In her book, the hagiographer highlights the miraculous events surrounding the saint's life.
- female hagiographers
- medieval hagiographers
Examples
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The hagiographer portrayed the saint as a model of virtue and piety.
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The hagiographer even stated that "the Christian children were the godfathers" of the newly baptized.
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Do these female hagiographers share common concerns?
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The hagiographer describes in great detail Theodoric's direction of the school in Lobbes.
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Establishing a norm of marital relationships was less important to the hagiographer, and thus to his or her audience, than establishing their noble characters.
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How similar are their interests and authorial strategies to those of contemporary male hagiographers?
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But their hagiographers did not focus on physical pain and suffering as a redemptive element in their subjects' lives.
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The hagiographer of Theodoric also mentioned the rejection of the bull by unnamed opponents.
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Identifying the gendered goals of these hagiographers also permits us a new perspective on their subjects' real lives.
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The female hagiographers considered here had their own specific and individual motivations for writing, which stemmed primarily from institutional relationships.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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A person who writes about someone's life and achievements
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A person who describes real events in a more exciting or beautiful way
A person who writes life stories that make someone seem too perfect
A person who writes life stories that praise saints
Antonyms
How Laudatory
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
hagiographer = hagiography (opaque) = hagio + graph + er
Adding the agentive suffix '-er' to 'hagiography' is a regular English derivational step meaning a person associated with that activity or field.
Etymology
Hagiographer comes from old Greek parts hagio- meaning 'holy' and -grapher meaning 'writer', so it literally means a 'writer of saints'. That's why today a hagiographer is someone who writes a life story that praises its subject a lot, often making them seem like a saint.