MEANING
1. An account or study of saints and their lives.
2. An account that praises its subject while avoiding critical scrutiny.
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Words that belong together
- medieval hagiography
- saint’s hagiography
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The manuscript belonged to medieval hagiography.
Her research examined the saint’s hagiography.
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Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable as a field; plural hagiographies for accounts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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