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Definition of Hagiography
1. Noun. A biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint).
Definition of Hagiography
1. n. Same as Hagiographa.
Definition of Hagiography
1. Noun. The study of saints. ¹
2. Noun. A biography of a saint. ¹
3. Noun. A biography which expresses reverence and respect for its subject. ¹
4. Noun. (pejorative) A biography which is uncritically supportive of its subject, often including embellishments or propaganda. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hagiography
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Medical Definition of Hagiography
1. Same Hagiographa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hagiography
Literary usage of Hagiography
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pronaos to Holy Writ: Establishing on Documentary Evidence, the Authorship by Isaac Mayer Wise (1891)
"So hagiography was considered of inferior holiness to Prophets (See Yerushalmi
in loco cit.), and Prophets inferior to the Pentateuch ; so much so that it ..."
2. The Oracles of God: A Popular Introduction to the Old Testament Scriptures by Samuel Albert Martin (1916)
"It has been customary from ancient times to classify the Old Testament in three
divisions, called the Law, the Prophets and the hagiography. ..."
3. Notes, Critical, Illustrative, and Practical, on the Book of Daniel, with an by Albert Barnes (1853)
"Assuredly it could not have been pretended that these writings belonged to the
Maccabean age, and that they were inserted in the hagiography because they ..."
4. The Library Magazine (1887)
"It embodies not alone the allegorical teaching of the Fathers of the Synagogue,
ranging over the field of Pentateuch and hagiography, but the whole mass of ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"307. hagiographie (hâ"ji-ô-graf'ik), a. [< hagiography + ... Pertaining to
hagiography ; relating to the Hagiographa, or to sacred writings. ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"At the same time, it must be remembered that Simeon may have written encomiums
which he did not include in his hagiography. It is clear, moreover, ..."
7. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1908)
"Then the competition of the secular romance, as has been caustically remarked,
which came in with the seventeenth century, threw hagiography and martyrology ..."
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