hagiographer
Americannoun
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one of the writers of the Hagiographa.
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a writer of lives of the saints; hagiologist.
noun
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a person who writes about the lives of the saints
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one of the writers of the Hagiographa
Etymology
Origin of hagiographer
1650–60; < Greek hagiógraph ( os ) + -er 1
Example Sentences
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It was led by Platon Kerzhentsev, a 54-year-old career propagandist, censor and Lenin hagiographer.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022
Ambrose may have been an academically trained historian, but he seemed to pride himself on being a hagiographer.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2021
A documentary about one of the most mediated, image-conscious people on the planet sounds like an oxymoron, and though director Lana Wilson is no hagiographer, Miss Americana is hardly warts-and-all.
From Slate • Jan. 24, 2020
“He was utterly amazed,” wrote his hagiographer, Thomas of Celano.
From Washington Post
Modern critical methods were undreamed of in the days of our hagiographer, who wrote, moreover, for edification only in a credulous age.
From The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore by Power, P. (Patrick)
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