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Definition of Hagiographer
1. Noun. The author of a worshipful or idealizing biography.
Definition of Hagiographer
1. n. One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.
Definition of Hagiographer
1. Noun. someone who writes the biography of a saint ¹
2. Noun. someone who writes praising and flattering things about a person (as if that person ''were'' a saint) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hagiographer
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hagiographer
1. One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hagiographer
Literary usage of Hagiographer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parishes, Tithes, and Society in Earlier Medieval Poland, C. 1100-c. 1250 by Piotr Górecki (1993)
""If," the hagiographer narrates, "at some time the large supply of priests
diminished, she summoned [a priest] from wherever one could be procured in order ..."
2. "The Cripple Creek Strike of 1893" by Benjamin McKie Rastall (1905)
"Apparently no contemporary evidence remains either of "William of Ramsey the
hagiographer" or of his works—MS ascriptions are all modern and probably ..."
3. The Dictionary of Biographical Reference: Containing Over One Hundred by Lawrence Barnett Phillips (1889)
"Jean, French hagiographer ; b. ... Francois do, preacher and hagiographer ;
1709-1788 DU Ligón, Richard, English traveller ; 17th cent. ..."
4. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1903)
"Because the " hagiographer "—including in this case M. Bois- sier!—generally
considers that the meaning is that she entered a nunnery, Mr. McCabe, ..."
5. The Work of the Bollandists Through Three Centuries, 1615-1915 by Hippolyte Delehaye (1922)
""When a hagiographer, imbued with this spirit and guided by these ... It was only
at this stage that the hagiographer submitted his work to each of his ..."
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