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What does hagiography mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hagiography? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (uncountable) The study of saints.
  2. (countable) A biography of a saint.
  3. (countable) A biography which expresses reverence and respect for its subject.
  4. (pejorative) A biography which is uncritically supportive of its subject, often including embellishments or propaganda.
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To say that hagiography was mere propaganda for the saint in question is missing an important point.
But it's also extraordinary that they can be faithfully reported by a biographer who seems committed to hagiography.
Attempting to be a hagiography of everybody involved, it becomes instead a satire of the whole folie de grandeur of this absurd project.
She fit a type easily recognized in the annals of hagiography, and it was on that basis that claims for sainthood were made.
He was certainly no cardboard figure and no amount of hagiography has succeeded in making him a saint.
Saint Martin's hagiography portrays him as a powerful exorcist who fought personally with Satan throughout his life.

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