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HAGIOGRAPHER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hagiographer mean?
• HAGIOGRAPHER (noun)
The noun HAGIOGRAPHER has 1 sense:
1. the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography
Familiarity information: HAGIOGRAPHER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The author of a worshipful or idealizing biography
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
hagiographer; hagiographist; hagiologist
Hypernyms ("hagiographer" is a kind of...):
biographer (someone who writes an account of a person's life)
Derivation:
hagiography (a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint))
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