hagiographic
- a word derived from hagiography.
Example Sentences
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While these celebrity docs are hagiographic and formulaic, the interviews with Nadal and family and rivals like Federer and Novak Djokovic do push beyond the surface.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
In both movie versions and in the hagiographic book The Twelfth of August: The Life of Sheriff Buford Pusser, by W.R.
From Slate • Nov. 6, 2025
The sudden fall of a modern-day icon – only last year he was the subject was a hagiographic biopic – has been greeted with less surprise than might have been expected.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024
Certainly “Empress of the Nile” tells her story well, embedding it in the history of modern Egyptian archaeology, though at times it does approach the hagiographic.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2023
As a result of the co-operation of humanist scholars a great number of Greek hagiographic texts became for the first time accessible to the West in a Latin translation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
