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hagiography

/hag-ee-og-ruh-fee, hey-jee-/US // ˌhæg iˈɒg rə fi, ˌheɪ dʒi- //UK // (ˌhæɡɪˈɒɡrəfɪ) //

传记,传记文学,传记文学作品,圣战

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural hag·i·og·ra·phies.

    • : the writing and critical study of the lives of the saints; hagiology.
    • : a biography that treats the person with excessive or undue admiration.

Examples

  • Birdsall gives us a portrait of Beard that is neither a take-down nor hagiography.

  • She wants a “hagiography,” and the conflicts and confusions that ensue provide The Last Word with its comic momentum.

  • We Could Be King is, of course, part of a larger emergent genre, that of the high school football hagiography.

  • Surfing on an ocean of media hagiography, Christie seemed unbeatable just when it was time for Democrats to declare themselves.

  • And thank God, given the current glut of baseball hagiography on the market.

  • One has to be careful not to descend into a mess of hagiography.

  • But the great and absorbing subject of poetry in this age is Hagiography.

  • Hagiography was now a lost branch of art, as completely lost as wood carving, and the miniatures of the old missals.

  • The second version, though LB calls it miraculum insolitum, is one of the commonplaces of hagiography.

  • Space would now fail us to trace the development of hagiography in the Church.

  • The hagiography of the Eastern and the Greek church also has been the subject of important publications.