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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Biography of saints.
  2. n. A worshipful or idealizing biography.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Sacred writing or literature; sacred writings collectively; a collection of lives of the saints.

Wiktionary

  1. n. uncountable The study of saints.
  2. n. countable A biography of a saint.
  3. n. countable A biography which expresses reverence and respect for its subject.
  4. n. pejorative A biography which is uncritically supportive of its subject, often including embellishments or propaganda.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Same as Hagiographa.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ἅγιος (hagios, "holy") + -γραφία (-graphia, "writing"). (Wiktionary)

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