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What does hagiographer mean?

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Noun
  1. Someone who writes the biography of a saint.
  2. Someone who writes praising and flattering things about a person (as if that person were a saint).
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They are described by the great hagiographer, Du Guangting, at the end of the Tang dynasty.
He has chosen nine other contributors, mainly from the U.K., among them the excellent hagiographer.
This book is a real effort to distinguish between the problems and perspectives of the hagiographer on the one hand and the historian on the other.
The other day I asked Robert Caro, Johnson's Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer and hardly a hagiographer of the man, whether he thought Johnson should be mentioned in Denver.
Bede's work as a hagiographer, and his detailed attention to dating, were both useful preparations for the task of writing the Historia Ecclesiastica.
With this end of glorification in view the hagiographer is prepared to swallow everything and record anything.

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