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hagiography (iou)



hagiography noun. E19.
[from HAGIO- + -GRAPHY.]
Holy Scripture; the Hagiographa. rare. Only in E19.
The writing of saints' biographies; saints' biographies as a branch of literature or legend; transf. the writing of an idealized biography of any person. E19.
J. Updike Busch avoids hagiography as well as criticism.