- hagiography
- noun Date: 1821 1. biography of saints or venerated persons 2. idealizing or idolizing biography
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Hagiography — ( /ˌhæɡ … Wikipedia
Hagiography — • The name given to that branch of learning which has the saints and their worship for its object Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Hagiography Hagiography … Catholic encyclopedia
Hagiography — Ha gi*og ra*phy ( f[y^]; 277), n. Same as {Hagiographa}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
hagiography — (n.) writing of saints lives, 1821, from Gk. hagios holy (see HAGIOLOGY (Cf. hagiology)) + GRAPHY (Cf. graphy). Related: Hagiographic (1819); hagiographical (1580s); hagiographer (1650s) … Etymology dictionary
hagiography — ► NOUN 1) the writing of the lives of saints. 2) a biography idealizing its subject. DERIVATIVES hagiographic adjective hagiographical adjective … English terms dictionary
hagiography — [hag΄ē äg′rə fē, hā΄jēäg′rə fē] n. pl. hagiographies [ HAGIO + GRAPHY] 1. a book or writing, or an assemblage of these, about the lives of saints 2. such books or writings as a field of study … English World dictionary
HAGIOGRAPHY — Although hagiographies, embellished accounts of biblical worthies, are not unknown in previous ages, particularly in the apocrypha (e.g., lives of the prophets and Martyrdom of isaiah ), in the Middle Ages they developed as a specific genre of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
hagiography — hagiographic /hag ee euh graf ik, hay jee /, hagiographical, adj. /hag ee og reuh fee, hay jee /, n., pl. hagiographies. the writing and critical study of the lives of the saints; hagiology. [1805 15; HAGIO + GRAPHY] * * * Literature describing… … Universalium
hagiography — UK [ˌhæɡɪˈɒɡrəfɪ] / US [ˌhæɡɪˈɑɡrəfɪ] noun [countable] Word forms hagiography : singular hagiography plural hagiographies 1) a book about the lives of saints 2) formal a book about a person s life that deliberately includes only good things about … English dictionary
hagiography — noun /ˌheɪdʒiˈɑɡrəfi,ˌhæɡiˈɒɡrəfi/ a) The study of saints. b) A biography of a saint … Wiktionary
