Example Sentences

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How many saints have lived on earth, not even the wisest hagiologist knows.

From Time Magazine Archive

How many saints the Roman Catholic Church has recognized not even the wisest hagiologist knows.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dallek, author of a balanced two-volume life of Lyndon Johnson, is neither debunker nor hagiologist, but rather a fairly shrewd syncretist with a certain amount of new material to bring to light.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have given the charming story as The Golden Legend tells it; but one may also hold the opinion, more acceptable to the orthodox hagiologist, that the dreadful monster was merely symbolical of sin.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry