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Webster 1913 Edition

Hagiographer

Haˊgi-og′ra-pher

(-fẽr)

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Noun.

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.

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Webster 1828 Edition

Hagiographer

HAGIOG'RAPHER

,

Noun.

[See the next word.] A writer of holy or sacred books.

Definition 2024

hagiographer

hagiographer

English

Noun

hagiographer ‎(plural hagiographers)

Someone who writes the biography of a saint.
Someone who writes praising and flattering things about a person (as if that person were a saint).

Related terms

hagiography

Translations

someone who writes the biography of a saint

Asturian: haxógrafu m
Catalan: hagiògraf m
French: hagiographe (fr) m
Galician: haxiógrafo m
Greek: αγιογράφος (el) m ‎(agiográfos)

Italian: agiografo (it) m
Latin: hagiographus m
Portuguese: hagiógrafo (pt) m
Spanish: hagiógrafo m