Hagiography Definition

hăgē-ŏgrə-fē, hājē-
hagiographies
noun
A book or writing, or an assemblage of these, about the lives of saints.
Webster's New World
Such books or writings as a field of study.
Webster's New World
A biography of a saint.
American Heritage
A biography or biographical writing that idealizes its subject.
Webster's New World
An admiring or idealized biography.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Hagiography

Noun

Singular:
hagiography
Plural:
hagiographies

Origin of Hagiography

  • From Ancient Greek ἅγιος (hagios, “holy”) + -γραφία (-graphia, “writing”).

    From Wiktionary

Hagiography Sentence Examples

  • The hagiography of the Eastern and the Greek church also has been the subject of important publications.

  • Already, only eighty years after More's execution, hagiography had taken possession of the facts and was transmuting them into an edifying legend.

  • Why has early medieval hagiography survived better than other types of writing?

  • In the literature as it survives many different branches of writing are represented - homilies in prose and verse, hymns, exposition and commentary, liturgy, apocryphal legends, historical romance, hagiography and martyrology, monastic history and biography, general history, dogmatics, philosophy and science, ecclesiastical law, &c. But the whole is dominated by the theological and ecclesiastical interest.

  • He was a churchman in Alfred's employ, so it is not surprising that he wrote more hagiography than biography.

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