hierology
Americannoun
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literature or learning regarding sacred things.
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hagiological literature or learning.
noun
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sacred literature
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a biography of a saint
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In the Nichiren hierology, it is as though the symbolical figures in the Book of Revelation had been deified and worshipped.
From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis
The best critical writers on ancient history have agreed not to throw away the cosmogony and the hierology of Greece.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton
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