hagiographer

or hag·i·og·ra·phist

[hag-ee-og-ruh-fer, hey-jee-]

noun

one of the writers of the Hagiographa.

a writer of lives of the saints; hagiologist.

Origin of hagiographer

1650–60; < Greek hagiógraph(os) + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for hagiographer

Contemporary Examples of hagiographer

It may be that some hagiographer yet to come will find the stained sheets of fact and memory amid his papers.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days
David Freeman
December 13, 2014

Historical Examples of hagiographer

With this end of glorification in view the hagiographer is prepared to swallow everything and record anything.
Lives of SS. Declan and Mochuda
Anonymous
Such a claim is natural to the hagiographer; yet there lies behind it a certain truth.
Ruysbroeck
Evelyn Underhill

British Dictionary definitions for hagiographer

hagiographer

hagiographist

noun

a person who writes about the lives of the saints

one of the writers of the Hagiographa

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