Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Biography of saints.
- n. A worshipful or idealizing biography.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Sacred writing or literature; sacred writings collectively; a collection of lives of the saints.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The study of saints.
- n. countable A biography of a saint.
- n. countable A biography which expresses reverence and respect for its subject.
- n. pejorative A biography which is uncritically supportive of its subject, often including embellishments or propaganda.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as Hagiographa.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἅγιος (hagios, "holy") + -γραφία (-graphia, "writing"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It looks and sounds very similar to the Stalin hagiography you posted not very long ago … animalauthor”
“But a disturbing quality I find in UU hagiography is that it often revises the portraits of our saints to more closely resemble who we would have liked them to be than who they actually were.”
“Might be interesting to compare Latin hagiography (say, the Life of Cuthbert) with English hagiography (Aelfric's Life of Oswald), but I worry that doing so would be more appropriate for a Medieval Literature class than for a true survey.”
“But despite the book's subtitle, "Toward a Gay Hagiography," any such hagiography is simply invisible in the book.”
“I don't know what his hagiography is like, but his writing on music is notoriously untrustworthy.”
“Closely connected with Greek hagiography is Slavonic hagiography.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“I am not saying he was a bad man, I am just not drinking your Kool-Aid, and I think this newspaper indulged in hagiography. —”
A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“The flip side of the hagiography is the backlash Jacklash?”
“My mother, a Protestant convert not especially well versed in Irish hagiography, misspelled the name on my birth certificate.”
“In this wholly un-catholic context, "hagiography" is a pejorative term, an accusation that the biographer writes with uncritical reverence.”
The Huffington Post: Joe Woodward: Hagiography -- Writing the Lives of the Saints
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hagiography’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
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forms/acts: art
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I didn't know there was a word for that!
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Vocabulary
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ancient signs
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Go over
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five syllables
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
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andystardust's Words
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
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New words
Words that are new to me.
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Tweets
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