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UK
/hˌædʒɪˈɒɡɹəfi/
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[ US /ˌhæɡiˈɑɡɹəfi/ ]
[ US /ˌhæɡiˈɑɡɹəfi/ ]
NOUN
- a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)
How To Use hagiography In A Sentence
- The authors employ this term as they trace the active presence of spirituality within imagery and seek to understand the devotee's communion with the saint through a process of hagiography.
- She fit a type easily recognized in the annals of hagiography, and it was on that basis that claims for sainthood were made.
- In spite of its unreliability as a factual source for specific information about individual saints, however, hagiography supplies us with a rich source of information about medieval social and philosophical attitudes.
- Perhaps that is going a bit far; indeed, this book sometimes teeters on the brink of hagiography. Times, Sunday Times
- A virtual hagiography has emerged around missionary translations, describing the trying conditions under which these early translators toiled.
- Green did not set out to write hagiography, but I think this is hagiography at its best.
- And so this book does lapse into something of a hagiography.
- It has been said that exorcism lay at the heart of the early Christian communities, and it featured prominently in medieval hagiography as the occasion for victories over devils by saints, either personally or at their shrines.
- To her credit, she has not produced a hagiography.
- What drove him remains a mystery in a book that is more hagiography than biography. Times, Sunday Times