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Definition of Hagiographers
1. hagiographer [n] - See also: hagiographer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hagiographers
Literary usage of Hagiographers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... the hagiographers were joined by a new companion, who was to accompany Henschen
on his journey, and who later was to shed as great glory on the work as ..."
2. Rome of the Pilgrims and Martyrs: A Study in the Martyrologies, Itineraries by Ethel Ross Barker (1913)
"The work of the hagiographers : Anachronisms and mistranslations; expansions of
the original documents; plagiarisms ; variety of the tradition and ..."
3. A Handbook of Patrology by Joseph Tixeront (1920)
"... EVAGRIUS Historians, and particularly hagiographers, wrote with much more
success at this period than the exegetes. Almost nothing is known about ..."
4. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1895)
"And we found that all Holy Writ consists of the Old Testament and of the New.
The Old contains three divisions—the law, the prophets, and the hagiographers. ..."
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