Associations to the word «Hagiography»
Noun
- Compassion
- Prophecy
- Narrative
- Ge
- Tours
- Sermon
- Hen
- Chronicler
- Devotee
- Shiva
- Disciple
- Literature
- Ab
- Hymn
- Biography
- Augustine
- Aesthetics
- Canon
- Hermit
- Saxon
- Gregory
- Orthodox
- Romance
- Vida
- Ar
- Meditation
- Kinship
- Saga
- Highlands
- Char
- Epistle
- Anglo
- Brittany
- Charter
- Carey
- Inscription
- Reformation
- Hasan
- Harp
- Rahman
- Cornwall
- Feast
- Poetry
- Devotion
- Attribute
- Patrick
- Ulster
- Gould
- Ambrose
- Jerome
- Superstition
- Deposition
- Teresa
- Purity
- Scholar
- Loch
- Hercules
- Muhammad
- Hinduism
- Wendy
- Fiddle
- Vocabulary
- Geoffrey
- Anthology
- Bard
- Content
- Renaissance
- Sanskrit
- Creativity
- Reading
- Tradition
- Fairy
- Pilgrimage
- Century
- Gods
- Sophia
- Constantine
- Ideal
- Abbey
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
HAGIOGRAPHY, noun. (uncountable) The study of saints.
HAGIOGRAPHY, noun. (countable) A biography of a saint.
HAGIOGRAPHY, noun. (countable) A biography which expresses reverence and respect for its subject.
HAGIOGRAPHY, noun. (pejorative) A biography which is uncritically supportive of its subject, often including embellishments or propaganda.
Dictionary definition
HAGIOGRAPHY, noun. A biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint).
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.