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HAGIOGRAPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("hagiography" is a kind of...):
biography; life; life history; life story (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)
Derivation:
hagiographer (the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography)
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