noun
Meaning 1
Someone who writes the biography of a saint.
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noun
Someone who writes the biography of a saint.
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noun
Someone who writes in an excessively flattering and laudatory way about a person (as if that person were a saint).
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Usage: derogatory, figuratively
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noun
A writer of any of the Hagiographa.
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Topics: lifestyle, religion, theology
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noun
the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hagiographist, hagiologist
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Broader terms: biographer
History
From hagiography + -er.
Across languages
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.