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Definition of Hagiographic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hagiographic
Literary usage of Hagiographic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"As a result of the co-operation of humanist scholars a great number of Greek
hagiographic texts became for the firs: time accessible to the West in a Latin ..."
2. The Scottish Historical Review by Company of Scottish History (1906)
"Issues of July and October, 1905, contain, besides minor texts of the lives of
saints, an important series of catalogues of hagiographic manuscripts in ..."
3. Religious Confessions and Confessants: With a Chapter on the History of by Anna Robeson Brown Burr (1914)
"... the sphere of hagiographic romance that . . . Catherine of Genoa lived . . .
for constantly repeated periods of many weeks without any other food than ..."
4. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1903)
"generally considers that the meaning is that she entered a nunnery, Mr. McCabe,
with his customary anti-hagiographic fury, actually contends that it ..."
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