Topic: word of the day: hagiography
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Definition of hagiography --Merriam-Webster
1 : biography of saints or venerated persons
2 : idealizing or idolizing biography an account that smacks of hagiography
First Known Use of hagiography
1821, in the meaning defined at sense 1
History and Etymology for hagiography
see hagiographa
Definition of Hagiographa
: writings
History and Etymology for Hagiographa
Late Latin, from Late Greek, from hagio- + graphein to write — more at carve
Definition of hagi-
1 : holy hagioscope
2 : saints hagiography
History and Etymology for hagi-
Late Latin, from Greek, from hagios
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