Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The writing of the lives of saints.
- noun A biography of a saint.
- noun The writing of an admiring or idealized biography.
- noun An admiring or idealized biography.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sacred writing or literature; sacred writings collectively; a collection of lives of the saints.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
Hagiographa .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The
study ofsaints . - noun countable A
biography of a saint. - noun countable A
biography which expressesreverence andrespect for its subject. - noun pejorative A
biography which isuncritically supportive of its subject, often includingembellishments orpropaganda .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
"Famous UU" revisionism fausto 2009
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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.
Archive 2009-06-01 fausto 2009
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It looks and sounds very similar to the Stalin hagiography you posted not very long ago … animalauthor
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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.
How much medieval is too much? Prof. de Breeze 2008
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But despite the book's subtitle, "Toward a Gay Hagiography," any such hagiography is simply invisible in the book.
Notes on 'Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality' 2006
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I don't know what his hagiography is like, but his writing on music is notoriously untrustworthy.
02/01/2003 - 03/01/2003 John 2003
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Closely connected with Greek hagiography is Slavonic hagiography.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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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 2008
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The flip side of the hagiography is the backlash Jacklash?
The World Mourns, Apparently TK 2009
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The flip side of the hagiography is the backlash Jacklash?
Archive 2009-06-01 TK 2009
RevBrently commented on the word hagiography
From p. 24 of Patrick Leigh Fermor's "A Time to Keep Silence":
Vellum-bound folios and quartos receded in vistas, and thousands of ancient and modern works on theology, canon law, dogma, patrology, patristics, hagiography, mysticism and even magic, and almost as many on secular history, art and travel.
January 21, 2014