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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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
In Eric Cervini, a young historian of L.G.B.T.Q. politics and the author of the exhaustively researched and vividly written biography “The Deviant’s War,” Kameny has found his hagiographer.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2020
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
Ogg the son of Beorl," says my private hagiographer, "was a boatman who gained a scanty living by ferrying passengers across the river Floss.
From The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George
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