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Definition of Hagiographist
1. Noun. The author of a worshipful or idealizing biography.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hagiographist
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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