hagiography
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- noun
- /ˌheɪɡiˈɒɡrəfi/
- Formal
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hagiografía
- In traditional Christian hagiography, saints are often depicted as exceptionally holy from birth—even sometimes in utero.
- hagiography of a saint
- Christian hagiography
- works of hagiography
It just means hagiography is the life of the Saints.
- It just means hagiography is the life of the Saints.
- But also who in order to be true to the craft, I have to in fact, D hagiography.
Examples
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Instead of hagiography, the geographical view tended toward skepticism about both person and enterprise.
Academic text (1992) -
If he did, he would lapse into hagiography.
Academic text (2016) -
And now this is the what we call a hagiography or a legend.
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When we shared an interest in hagiography.
Fiction book (2002) -
That tercentennial was in many ways a time of hagiography, Not of history.
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It just means hagiography is the life of the Saints.
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Though less numerous than some hagiographies claim, these Christian martyrs became irrepressibly famous.
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The climax of Francis's hagiography occurs in his reception of the stigmata in the last years of his life.
Academic text (2008) -
Russian classical literature inherited hagiography's, i.e., lives of saints, goal of creating the ideal character, although there were more failures than achievements.
Academic text (2003) -
The official hagiography of the saint portrayed her as a miracle worker and a symbol of virtue.
Synonyms
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A written account of a person's life and important events
Antonyms
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Talking about someone in a way that shows dislike and makes them seem unimportant
How Laudatory
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
hagiography = hagi + graphy
Although historically built from a learned form meaning 'saint' plus '-graphy', the modern sense of an overly reverential biography is specialized and not easily recoverable for an average learner.
Etymology
Hagiography comes from the Greek parts hagios 'holy' and -graphy 'writing', so it literally means 'writing about holy people'. That's why a hagiography today is a biography that makes its subject, often a saint or leader, seem perfect and leaves out their faults.