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词汇 hagiographer
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Definition of hagiographer in English:

hagiographer

noun ˌhaɡɪˈɒɡrəfə
  • 1A writer of the lives of the saints.

    圣徒传记作者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The tenth-century hagiographer seems to have thought as much.
    • While it is almost inevitable that a biographer will either be a hagiographer or a betrayer, his betrayals are, actually, of a special order.
    • Even his hagiographer puts his performance as ‘at best pragmatic, at worst opportunistic and short-termist’.
    • To this end, hagiographers included in their narratives much that we can identify as ‘realistic.’
    • Thus, while both chroniclers and hagiographers tended to fall into the prevalent pattern of ignoring women as authoritative sources, nevertheless, they relied on women's evidence.
    • The hagiographer of Lenin took it with zeal.
    • I never saw him being ‘sunny,’ a favorite adjective of the hagiographers.
    • Even today her media hagiographers like to affect the notion that she spoke an intrinsic Aussie truth which has escaped those lofty elitists who befuddle their brains by actually reading a book or two.
    • His hagiographers tend to stress the innocence of it all.
    • His hagiographers may spin in their graves, but the truth will be told.
    1. 1.1 A biographer who treats their subject with undue reverence.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • 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.
      • Focusing on the role of the hagiographer as mediator between the saint and the saint's followers, he highlights the role of hagiographers in shaping these followers' communities.
      • Whiteley is no hagiographer - he can be coldly critical of his subject's blind spots and prejudices - and yet Banham's stature is enhanced rather than diminished by this study, which was no doubt the intention.
  • 2Theology
    A writer of any of the Hagiographa.

    〔神学〕《圣书卷》的作者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No medieval hagiographer better satisfied the need for historical ‘facts’ and for hagiographical ‘types’ (David, Elijah, Antony the Hermit).
    • Several essays address the self-reflexive nature of hagiographic traditions-the tendency of hagiographers to rewrite and adapt material and the interplay between adaptations from which clues of context may be discerned.
    • That is what the hagiographers were convinced they were doing, and so must their transmitters be.
    • Monk and mystic, monastic theologian and papal counselor, hagiographer and polemicist, a renowned preacher in the cloister and beyond it, Bernard was the single most important impetus for the spread of the Cistercians.
    • He has chosen nine other contributors, mainly from the U.K., among them the excellent hagiographer.

Rhymes

autobiographer, bibliographer, biographer, cartographer, choreographer, cinematographer, crystallographer, geographer, Hagiographa, iconographer, lexicographer, lithographer, oceanographer, palaeographer (US paleographer), photographer, pornographer, radiographer, stenographer, topographer, typographer

Definition of hagiographer in US English:

hagiographer

noun
  • 1A writer of the lives of the saints.

    圣徒传记作者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His hagiographers tend to stress the innocence of it all.
    • To this end, hagiographers included in their narratives much that we can identify as ‘realistic.’
    • I never saw him being ‘sunny,’ a favorite adjective of the hagiographers.
    • His hagiographers may spin in their graves, but the truth will be told.
    • Thus, while both chroniclers and hagiographers tended to fall into the prevalent pattern of ignoring women as authoritative sources, nevertheless, they relied on women's evidence.
    • Even today her media hagiographers like to affect the notion that she spoke an intrinsic Aussie truth which has escaped those lofty elitists who befuddle their brains by actually reading a book or two.
    • Even his hagiographer puts his performance as ‘at best pragmatic, at worst opportunistic and short-termist’.
    • The tenth-century hagiographer seems to have thought as much.
    • The hagiographer of Lenin took it with zeal.
    • While it is almost inevitable that a biographer will either be a hagiographer or a betrayer, his betrayals are, actually, of a special order.
    1. 1.1 A person who writes in an adulatory way about someone else, especially in a biography.
      〈贬〉阿谀奉承的传记作者
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Focusing on the role of the hagiographer as mediator between the saint and the saint's followers, he highlights the role of hagiographers in shaping these followers' communities.
      • 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.
      • Whiteley is no hagiographer - he can be coldly critical of his subject's blind spots and prejudices - and yet Banham's stature is enhanced rather than diminished by this study, which was no doubt the intention.
  • 2Theology
    A writer of any of the Hagiographa.

    〔神学〕《圣书卷》的作者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No medieval hagiographer better satisfied the need for historical ‘facts’ and for hagiographical ‘types’ (David, Elijah, Antony the Hermit).
    • That is what the hagiographers were convinced they were doing, and so must their transmitters be.
    • Several essays address the self-reflexive nature of hagiographic traditions-the tendency of hagiographers to rewrite and adapt material and the interplay between adaptations from which clues of context may be discerned.
    • He has chosen nine other contributors, mainly from the U.K., among them the excellent hagiographer.
    • Monk and mystic, monastic theologian and papal counselor, hagiographer and polemicist, a renowned preacher in the cloister and beyond it, Bernard was the single most important impetus for the spread of the Cistercians.
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