HAGIOGRAPHER

hagiographer, hagiographist, hagiologist

(noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

hagiographer (plural hagiographers)

Someone who writes the biography of a saint.

Someone who writes praising and flattering things about a person (as if that person were a saint).

Source: Wiktionary


Ha`gi*og"ra*pher, n.

Definition: One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Shipley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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