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
But another old hagiographer, Johannes à Bosco, tells a different story, making St. Malo an Irishman brought up by St. Brendan, and preserved by his prayers from a wave of the sea.
From The Hermits by Kingsley, Charles
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