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hagiography

Pronunciation: /ˌhagɪˈɒgrəfi/

Definition of hagiography

noun

[mass noun]
  • the writing of the lives of saints.
  • [count noun] a biography that treats its subject with undue reverence: a hagiography which is designed to serve a political agenda [mass noun]:the result is not hagiography but a fitting monument to a giant of 20th-century music

Derivatives

hagiographic

Pronunciation: /-ˈgrafɪk/

adjective

hagiographical

Pronunciation: /-ˈgrafɪk(ə)l/

adjective

hagiography in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of hagiography in the US English dictionary
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