hagiographies
- plural of hagiography.
Example Sentences
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She examined frescoes, illuminated manuscripts, hagiographies, and letters, uncovering materials that had been misdated or wrongly attributed.
From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026
The reason Wikipedia articles aren’t hagiographies is because they’re not supposed to be.
From Slate • Sep. 17, 2025
Tokarczuk has constructed her narrative as a collage of legends, letters, diary entries, rumors, hagiographies, political attacks and historical records.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2022
Also, picture book biographies are prone to feel more like hagiographies, where events or personality traits that might be awkward or boring to explain to a child reader are sugarcoated or altogether omitted.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021
The picture exhibited in the hagiographies is truly the reign of the saints.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill
