Definition of Hagiographist

1. Noun. The author of a worshipful or idealizing biography.

Exact synonyms: Hagiographer, Hagiologist
Generic synonyms: Biographer
Derivative terms: Hagiography

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hagiographist

haggles
haggling
haggs
hagiarchies
hagiarchy
hagiocracies
hagiocracy
hagiographa
hagiographal
hagiographer
hagiographers
hagiographic
hagiographical
hagiographically
hagiographies
hagiographist (current term)
hagiography
hagiolater
hagiolaters
hagiolatry
hagiologic
hagiological
hagiologies
hagiologist
hagiologists
hagiology
hagioscope
hagioscopes
hagioscopic
hagiotherapy

Literary usage of Hagiographist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The history of the temple of Jerusalem: tr. from the MS. of Jalal-addín [or by James Reynolds (1836)
"... Macedo was rather an exaggerating hagiographist, than an authoritative divine. For the materials of the above remarks the Translator is chiefly indebted ..."

2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1841)
"But if this important, and as yet imperfectly attempted enquiry, be prosecuted, the cases are to be sought in the narratives of the hagiographist. ..."

3. The Home and Foreign Review (1863)
"... was Charles Butler, a celebrated conveyancer of Lincoln's Inn. A nephew of Alban Butler the hagiographist, he was a person of kindred temperament, ..."

4. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1836)
"It is to be hoped, that Antonius Macedo was rather an exaggerating hagiographist, than an authoritative divine. For the materials of the above remarks the ..."

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