Definition of hagiography in English:

hagiography

noun ˌhaɡɪˈɒɡrəfi

mass noun

1The writing of the lives of saints.
圣徒传记
Example sentencesExamples
- He was certainly no cardboard figure and no amount of hagiography has succeeded in making him a saint.
- The authors of the work advise against hagiography, pointing out that ‘people don't become saints just because they die.’
- But like many other writers today finding fresh meaning in the lives and deaths of long-ago Christians, McBrien reviews traditional hagiography in order to draw contemporary lessons.
- If Renaissance art historiography is an adaptation of hagiography, wherein a new literary genre finds its themes in an ancient form, then might there not be a place for a Judas figure?
- She fit a type easily recognized in the annals of hagiography, and it was on that basis that claims for sainthood were made.
- The authors employ this term as they trace the active presence of spirituality within imagery and seek to understand the devotee's communion with the saint through a process of hagiography.
- It has been said that exorcism lay at the heart of the early Christian communities, and it featured prominently in medieval hagiography as the occasion for victories over devils by saints, either personally or at their shrines.
- Green did not set out to write hagiography, but I think this is hagiography at its best.
- But it's also extraordinary that they can be faithfully reported by a biographer who seems committed to hagiography.
- Saint Martin's hagiography portrays him as a powerful exorcist who fought personally with Satan throughout his life.
- In America, hagiography (the making of saints) is an art form.
- This is based on references in Irish hagiography to belts having been preserved as relics of the saints who wore them.
- To say that hagiography was mere propaganda for the saint in question is missing an important point.
- Why such fear of modern critical biblical studies and new understandings of hagiography and ecclesiastical history?
- Consequently, ‘structures of identity’ are revealed that hover between ‘autobiography, hagiography, sanctity and art.’
- Harris suggests this owed much to models from Roman Catholic hagiography and puritan exemplary lives.
- In spite of its unreliability as a factual source for specific information about individual saints, however, hagiography supplies us with a rich source of information about medieval social and philosophical attitudes.
- Because of the delicate nature of contemporary analysis, there is a penchant to lean in either of two ways: hagiography or unfettered antagonism.
- A virtual hagiography has emerged around missionary translations, describing the trying conditions under which these early translators toiled.
- Often, such literature is not hagiography, but presents life that falls short of human virtues.
1. 1.1count noun A biography that treats its subject with undue reverence.
  a hagiography which is designed to serve a political agenda
  mass noun the result is not hagiography but a fitting monument to a giant of 20th-century music
  Example sentencesExamples
  Though she has an empathy with her subjects, she tries not to idolise them, ensuring that none of the biographies reads like a hagiography.
  Since subjectivity is admitted from the outset, the documentary is clearly very far from being a possible hagiography.
  Read a couple of corporate histories -- even though they are blatant hagiographies -- and see which one jibes more with your set of core values.
  Her biography of Nietzsche is a double hagiography, comic and almost sad in its reflection of her own will to power.
  And so this book does lapse into something of a hagiography.
  Indeed, at times I wasn't sure if I was reading a biography or a hagiography.
  Politics doesn't look at all like the hagiographies I read when I was at the Jesuit monastery, where all the saints were perfect, no venial sins even.
  Elie is clearly sympathetic to and admires each of his subjects, but this is not a hagiography of anyone.
  These hagiographies, just as in the past, are meant to enhance the prestige and authority of the living, present day Zen Masters/roshis.
  Many of the films have intimate access to their subjects and while they all celebrate the work of the artists concerned, they are far from hagiographies.
  Chapters three and four make a strong case for the use of biographies and hagiographies to help reconstruct the ‘making’ of a saint.
  Why is it that English textbooks, including the one I was sent, are top-heavy with hagiographies of our national leaders?
  But I don't think either of them would have wanted me to do a hagiography.
  Too many Hollywood biographies are either poorly written, cut and paste hagiographies or spiteful, fantastical hatchet jobs that only prove the authors' distaste for their subject.
  This turns biography into hagiography: the subject isn't a mere artist working through his aesthetic ideas, he's Christ among the doubters and Pharisees.
  To her credit, she has not produced a hagiography.
  While hardly subjects of ‘idealizing or idolizing biography,’ as hagiography is defined, those two have had unusually high profiles as risk-takers and rule-breakers.
  Too often scholarly collections devoted to Reformed theology are but hagiographies born of an all-too-nostalgic gaze into the past.
  The first written literature dates from the eleventh century, with the production of religious texts, including translations from Byzantine works, original sermons and other didactic works, and hagiographies.
  But of the spirituality of lower social levels we know little, apart from exemplary stories of the extraordinarily pious or impious found in hagiographies and other didactic works.

Derivatives

hagiographic

adjective ˌhaɡɪəˈɡrafɪk

American history tends to be hagiographic in nature, building images of men like Washington and Lincoln as two dimensional ‘men in white hats’, sent by God himself to vanquish the forces of evil.
Example sentencesExamples
- While the foreign press has been flattering to the British, our own press has been positively hagiographic.
- It is a surprising group of images, found in connection with a variety of texts, including Gospel books, hagiographic collections, and liturgical volumes.
- For unless one subjects the self-serving declarations of one's protagonist to scrutiny, one ends up writing in the hagiographic mode.
- In place of conventional biblical and hagiographic narratives, we find subjects based more loosely on the bestiary, the Psalms, moralizing treatises, and monastic accounts of dreams and hallucinations.
- The hagiographic accounts of his life report that because his speech, like that of the Buddha, was profound and his words spread throughout the world he came to be called Buddhaghoa, literally meaning ‘Buddha utterance’.
- The hagiographic writings of journalists and biographers, meanwhile, focussed on the unique qualities of celebrated individuals and thus functioned as an adjunct to the apparatus.
- They devise TV tributes, hagiographic movies and Broadway-style shows of the kind I saw in London last week and will be telling you about later in this column.
- It was hugely popular in 1930s Hollywood, where the lives of the great, the worthy and the impossibly good were recorded in a hagiographic pearly light.
- Despite its arguably hagiographic and romantic nature, he presents some excellent material.

hagiographical

adjectiveˌhaˈɡrafɪk(ə)l

The story is offered, after all, in a hagiographical setting.
Example sentencesExamples
- Part one of the hour-long programme was soft focus and hagiographical, focusing on her limb-loss and subsequent work for landmine charities.
- She wrote works on medical, scientific, and hagiographical subjects, and entered into correspondence with political and spiritual leaders of the day, including emperors and popes.
- Central to any such liturgy would be the great hagiographical texts describing the life, death, and miraculous presence of the saint at his tomb.
- I do not appreciate the hagiographical approach of the media.
- The book was authorised, not critical, and its intent was somewhat hagiographical.
- These essays are not necessarily hagiographical.
- Most certainly, the hagiographical tradition did not usually provide stories of women who struggled and made compromises; the lives of the saints revealed only the great holiness that was finally achieved.
- Based on her hagiographical work, she has put together a single volume which contains forty biographical sketches of female saints from antiquity to the present.
- The trouble with retrospection - especially the kind of hagiographical retrospection that comes with a box set - is that it lends everything added poignancy.

Rhymes

autobiography, bibliography, biography, cardiography, cartography, chirography, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, cosmography, cryptography, demography, discography, filmography, geography, historiography, hydrography, iconography, lexicography, lithography, oceanography, orthography, palaeography (US paleography), photography, radiography, reprography, stenography, topography, typography

Definition of hagiography in US English:

hagiography

noun

1The writing of the lives of saints.
圣徒传记
Example sentencesExamples
- In America, hagiography (the making of saints) is an art form.
- But it's also extraordinary that they can be faithfully reported by a biographer who seems committed to hagiography.
- The authors employ this term as they trace the active presence of spirituality within imagery and seek to understand the devotee's communion with the saint through a process of hagiography.
- But like many other writers today finding fresh meaning in the lives and deaths of long-ago Christians, McBrien reviews traditional hagiography in order to draw contemporary lessons.
- She fit a type easily recognized in the annals of hagiography, and it was on that basis that claims for sainthood were made.
- Saint Martin's hagiography portrays him as a powerful exorcist who fought personally with Satan throughout his life.
- Green did not set out to write hagiography, but I think this is hagiography at its best.
- A virtual hagiography has emerged around missionary translations, describing the trying conditions under which these early translators toiled.
- Why such fear of modern critical biblical studies and new understandings of hagiography and ecclesiastical history?
- The authors of the work advise against hagiography, pointing out that ‘people don't become saints just because they die.’
- To say that hagiography was mere propaganda for the saint in question is missing an important point.
- Harris suggests this owed much to models from Roman Catholic hagiography and puritan exemplary lives.
- If Renaissance art historiography is an adaptation of hagiography, wherein a new literary genre finds its themes in an ancient form, then might there not be a place for a Judas figure?
- Because of the delicate nature of contemporary analysis, there is a penchant to lean in either of two ways: hagiography or unfettered antagonism.
- This is based on references in Irish hagiography to belts having been preserved as relics of the saints who wore them.
- Often, such literature is not hagiography, but presents life that falls short of human virtues.
- It has been said that exorcism lay at the heart of the early Christian communities, and it featured prominently in medieval hagiography as the occasion for victories over devils by saints, either personally or at their shrines.
- He was certainly no cardboard figure and no amount of hagiography has succeeded in making him a saint.
- In spite of its unreliability as a factual source for specific information about individual saints, however, hagiography supplies us with a rich source of information about medieval social and philosophical attitudes.
- Consequently, ‘structures of identity’ are revealed that hover between ‘autobiography, hagiography, sanctity and art.’
1. 1.1derogatory Adulatory writing about another person.
  〈贬〉充满谄媚之词的传记
  Example sentencesExamples
  His only real strength is the hagiography that was carefully cultivated after the attacks.
  So, the hagiography was good only to wrap the rotten mackerel of the administration.
  But it matters in a different way too; it makes a difference in the hagiography which pseudo-journalists have been peddling.
  Yet that view would detract from the hagiography.
  Most of the subjects I've written about have a lot of myths around them and I'm always very interested in coming between the myth, the hagiography and the denigration, and seeing what the truth might be.
2. 1.2 Biography that idealizes its subject.
  理想化（或偶像化）的传记
  a hagiography which is designed to serve a political agenda
  mass noun the result is not hagiography but a fitting monument to a giant of 20th-century music
  Example sentencesExamples
  Read a couple of corporate histories -- even though they are blatant hagiographies -- and see which one jibes more with your set of core values.
  To her credit, she has not produced a hagiography.
  But I don't think either of them would have wanted me to do a hagiography.
  And so this book does lapse into something of a hagiography.
  Chapters three and four make a strong case for the use of biographies and hagiographies to help reconstruct the ‘making’ of a saint.
  Indeed, at times I wasn't sure if I was reading a biography or a hagiography.
  This turns biography into hagiography: the subject isn't a mere artist working through his aesthetic ideas, he's Christ among the doubters and Pharisees.
  But of the spirituality of lower social levels we know little, apart from exemplary stories of the extraordinarily pious or impious found in hagiographies and other didactic works.
  Since subjectivity is admitted from the outset, the documentary is clearly very far from being a possible hagiography.
  Politics doesn't look at all like the hagiographies I read when I was at the Jesuit monastery, where all the saints were perfect, no venial sins even.
  Elie is clearly sympathetic to and admires each of his subjects, but this is not a hagiography of anyone.
  While hardly subjects of ‘idealizing or idolizing biography,’ as hagiography is defined, those two have had unusually high profiles as risk-takers and rule-breakers.
  Too many Hollywood biographies are either poorly written, cut and paste hagiographies or spiteful, fantastical hatchet jobs that only prove the authors' distaste for their subject.
  The first written literature dates from the eleventh century, with the production of religious texts, including translations from Byzantine works, original sermons and other didactic works, and hagiographies.
  These hagiographies, just as in the past, are meant to enhance the prestige and authority of the living, present day Zen Masters/roshis.
  Though she has an empathy with her subjects, she tries not to idolise them, ensuring that none of the biographies reads like a hagiography.
  Many of the films have intimate access to their subjects and while they all celebrate the work of the artists concerned, they are far from hagiographies.
  Why is it that English textbooks, including the one I was sent, are top-heavy with hagiographies of our national leaders?
  Too often scholarly collections devoted to Reformed theology are but hagiographies born of an all-too-nostalgic gaze into the past.
  Her biography of Nietzsche is a double hagiography, comic and almost sad in its reflection of her own will to power.

词汇	hagiography
释义	Definition of hagiography in English: hagiography noun ˌhaɡɪˈɒɡrəfi mass noun 1The writing of the lives of saints. 圣徒传记 Example sentencesExamples He was certainly no cardboard figure and no amount of hagiography has succeeded in making him a saint. The authors of the work advise against hagiography, pointing out that ‘people don't become saints just because they die.’ But like many other writers today finding fresh meaning in the lives and deaths of long-ago Christians, McBrien reviews traditional hagiography in order to draw contemporary lessons. If Renaissance art historiography is an adaptation of hagiography, wherein a new literary genre finds its themes in an ancient form, then might there not be a place for a Judas figure? She fit a type easily recognized in the annals of hagiography, and it was on that basis that claims for sainthood were made. The authors employ this term as they trace the active presence of spirituality within imagery and seek to understand the devotee's communion with the saint through a process of hagiography. It has been said that exorcism lay at the heart of the early Christian communities, and it featured prominently in medieval hagiography as the occasion for victories over devils by saints, either personally or at their shrines. Green did not set out to write hagiography, but I think this is hagiography at its best. But it's also extraordinary that they can be faithfully reported by a biographer who seems committed to hagiography. Saint Martin's hagiography portrays him as a powerful exorcist who fought personally with Satan throughout his life. In America, hagiography (the making of saints) is an art form. This is based on references in Irish hagiography to belts having been preserved as relics of the saints who wore them. To say that hagiography was mere propaganda for the saint in question is missing an important point. Why such fear of modern critical biblical studies and new understandings of hagiography and ecclesiastical history? Consequently, ‘structures of identity’ are revealed that hover between ‘autobiography, hagiography, sanctity and art.’ Harris suggests this owed much to models from Roman Catholic hagiography and puritan exemplary lives. In spite of its unreliability as a factual source for specific information about individual saints, however, hagiography supplies us with a rich source of information about medieval social and philosophical attitudes. Because of the delicate nature of contemporary analysis, there is a penchant to lean in either of two ways: hagiography or unfettered antagonism. A virtual hagiography has emerged around missionary translations, describing the trying conditions under which these early translators toiled. Often, such literature is not hagiography, but presents life that falls short of human virtues. 1.1count noun A biography that treats its subject with undue reverence. a hagiography which is designed to serve a political agenda mass noun the result is not hagiography but a fitting monument to a giant of 20th-century music Example sentencesExamples Though she has an empathy with her subjects, she tries not to idolise them, ensuring that none of the biographies reads like a hagiography. Since subjectivity is admitted from the outset, the documentary is clearly very far from being a possible hagiography. Read a couple of corporate histories -- even though they are blatant hagiographies -- and see which one jibes more with your set of core values. Her biography of Nietzsche is a double hagiography, comic and almost sad in its reflection of her own will to power. And so this book does lapse into something of a hagiography. Indeed, at times I wasn't sure if I was reading a biography or a hagiography. Politics doesn't look at all like the hagiographies I read when I was at the Jesuit monastery, where all the saints were perfect, no venial sins even. Elie is clearly sympathetic to and admires each of his subjects, but this is not a hagiography of anyone. These hagiographies, just as in the past, are meant to enhance the prestige and authority of the living, present day Zen Masters/roshis. Many of the films have intimate access to their subjects and while they all celebrate the work of the artists concerned, they are far from hagiographies. Chapters three and four make a strong case for the use of biographies and hagiographies to help reconstruct the ‘making’ of a saint. Why is it that English textbooks, including the one I was sent, are top-heavy with hagiographies of our national leaders? But I don't think either of them would have wanted me to do a hagiography. Too many Hollywood biographies are either poorly written, cut and paste hagiographies or spiteful, fantastical hatchet jobs that only prove the authors' distaste for their subject. This turns biography into hagiography: the subject isn't a mere artist working through his aesthetic ideas, he's Christ among the doubters and Pharisees. To her credit, she has not produced a hagiography. While hardly subjects of ‘idealizing or idolizing biography,’ as hagiography is defined, those two have had unusually high profiles as risk-takers and rule-breakers. Too often scholarly collections devoted to Reformed theology are but hagiographies born of an all-too-nostalgic gaze into the past. The first written literature dates from the eleventh century, with the production of religious texts, including translations from Byzantine works, original sermons and other didactic works, and hagiographies. But of the spirituality of lower social levels we know little, apart from exemplary stories of the extraordinarily pious or impious found in hagiographies and other didactic works. Derivatives hagiographic adjective ˌhaɡɪəˈɡrafɪk American history tends to be hagiographic in nature, building images of men like Washington and Lincoln as two dimensional ‘men in white hats’, sent by God himself to vanquish the forces of evil. Example sentencesExamples While the foreign press has been flattering to the British, our own press has been positively hagiographic. It is a surprising group of images, found in connection with a variety of texts, including Gospel books, hagiographic collections, and liturgical volumes. For unless one subjects the self-serving declarations of one's protagonist to scrutiny, one ends up writing in the hagiographic mode. In place of conventional biblical and hagiographic narratives, we find subjects based more loosely on the bestiary, the Psalms, moralizing treatises, and monastic accounts of dreams and hallucinations. The hagiographic accounts of his life report that because his speech, like that of the Buddha, was profound and his words spread throughout the world he came to be called Buddhaghoa, literally meaning ‘Buddha utterance’. The hagiographic writings of journalists and biographers, meanwhile, focussed on the unique qualities of celebrated individuals and thus functioned as an adjunct to the apparatus. They devise TV tributes, hagiographic movies and Broadway-style shows of the kind I saw in London last week and will be telling you about later in this column. It was hugely popular in 1930s Hollywood, where the lives of the great, the worthy and the impossibly good were recorded in a hagiographic pearly light. Despite its arguably hagiographic and romantic nature, he presents some excellent material. hagiographical adjectiveˌhaˈɡrafɪk(ə)l The story is offered, after all, in a hagiographical setting. Example sentencesExamples Part one of the hour-long programme was soft focus and hagiographical, focusing on her limb-loss and subsequent work for landmine charities. She wrote works on medical, scientific, and hagiographical subjects, and entered into correspondence with political and spiritual leaders of the day, including emperors and popes. Central to any such liturgy would be the great hagiographical texts describing the life, death, and miraculous presence of the saint at his tomb. I do not appreciate the hagiographical approach of the media. The book was authorised, not critical, and its intent was somewhat hagiographical. These essays are not necessarily hagiographical. Most certainly, the hagiographical tradition did not usually provide stories of women who struggled and made compromises; the lives of the saints revealed only the great holiness that was finally achieved. Based on her hagiographical work, she has put together a single volume which contains forty biographical sketches of female saints from antiquity to the present. The trouble with retrospection - especially the kind of hagiographical retrospection that comes with a box set - is that it lends everything added poignancy. Rhymes autobiography, bibliography, biography, cardiography, cartography, chirography, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, cosmography, cryptography, demography, discography, filmography, geography, historiography, hydrography, iconography, lexicography, lithography, oceanography, orthography, palaeography (US paleography), photography, radiography, reprography, stenography, topography, typography Definition of hagiography in US English: hagiography noun 1The writing of the lives of saints. 圣徒传记 Example sentencesExamples In America, hagiography (the making of saints) is an art form. But it's also extraordinary that they can be faithfully reported by a biographer who seems committed to hagiography. The authors employ this term as they trace the active presence of spirituality within imagery and seek to understand the devotee's communion with the saint through a process of hagiography. But like many other writers today finding fresh meaning in the lives and deaths of long-ago Christians, McBrien reviews traditional hagiography in order to draw contemporary lessons. She fit a type easily recognized in the annals of hagiography, and it was on that basis that claims for sainthood were made. Saint Martin's hagiography portrays him as a powerful exorcist who fought personally with Satan throughout his life. Green did not set out to write hagiography, but I think this is hagiography at its best. A virtual hagiography has emerged around missionary translations, describing the trying conditions under which these early translators toiled. Why such fear of modern critical biblical studies and new understandings of hagiography and ecclesiastical history? The authors of the work advise against hagiography, pointing out that ‘people don't become saints just because they die.’ To say that hagiography was mere propaganda for the saint in question is missing an important point. Harris suggests this owed much to models from Roman Catholic hagiography and puritan exemplary lives. If Renaissance art historiography is an adaptation of hagiography, wherein a new literary genre finds its themes in an ancient form, then might there not be a place for a Judas figure? Because of the delicate nature of contemporary analysis, there is a penchant to lean in either of two ways: hagiography or unfettered antagonism. This is based on references in Irish hagiography to belts having been preserved as relics of the saints who wore them. Often, such literature is not hagiography, but presents life that falls short of human virtues. It has been said that exorcism lay at the heart of the early Christian communities, and it featured prominently in medieval hagiography as the occasion for victories over devils by saints, either personally or at their shrines. He was certainly no cardboard figure and no amount of hagiography has succeeded in making him a saint. In spite of its unreliability as a factual source for specific information about individual saints, however, hagiography supplies us with a rich source of information about medieval social and philosophical attitudes. Consequently, ‘structures of identity’ are revealed that hover between ‘autobiography, hagiography, sanctity and art.’ 1.1derogatory Adulatory writing about another person. 〈贬〉充满谄媚之词的传记 Example sentencesExamples His only real strength is the hagiography that was carefully cultivated after the attacks. So, the hagiography was good only to wrap the rotten mackerel of the administration. But it matters in a different way too; it makes a difference in the hagiography which pseudo-journalists have been peddling. Yet that view would detract from the hagiography. Most of the subjects I've written about have a lot of myths around them and I'm always very interested in coming between the myth, the hagiography and the denigration, and seeing what the truth might be. 1.2 Biography that idealizes its subject. 理想化（或偶像化）的传记 a hagiography which is designed to serve a political agenda mass noun the result is not hagiography but a fitting monument to a giant of 20th-century music Example sentencesExamples Read a couple of corporate histories -- even though they are blatant hagiographies -- and see which one jibes more with your set of core values. To her credit, she has not produced a hagiography. But I don't think either of them would have wanted me to do a hagiography. And so this book does lapse into something of a hagiography. Chapters three and four make a strong case for the use of biographies and hagiographies to help reconstruct the ‘making’ of a saint. Indeed, at times I wasn't sure if I was reading a biography or a hagiography. This turns biography into hagiography: the subject isn't a mere artist working through his aesthetic ideas, he's Christ among the doubters and Pharisees. But of the spirituality of lower social levels we know little, apart from exemplary stories of the extraordinarily pious or impious found in hagiographies and other didactic works. Since subjectivity is admitted from the outset, the documentary is clearly very far from being a possible hagiography. Politics doesn't look at all like the hagiographies I read when I was at the Jesuit monastery, where all the saints were perfect, no venial sins even. Elie is clearly sympathetic to and admires each of his subjects, but this is not a hagiography of anyone. While hardly subjects of ‘idealizing or idolizing biography,’ as hagiography is defined, those two have had unusually high profiles as risk-takers and rule-breakers. Too many Hollywood biographies are either poorly written, cut and paste hagiographies or spiteful, fantastical hatchet jobs that only prove the authors' distaste for their subject. The first written literature dates from the eleventh century, with the production of religious texts, including translations from Byzantine works, original sermons and other didactic works, and hagiographies. These hagiographies, just as in the past, are meant to enhance the prestige and authority of the living, present day Zen Masters/roshis. Though she has an empathy with her subjects, she tries not to idolise them, ensuring that none of the biographies reads like a hagiography. Many of the films have intimate access to their subjects and while they all celebrate the work of the artists concerned, they are far from hagiographies. Why is it that English textbooks, including the one I was sent, are top-heavy with hagiographies of our national leaders? Too often scholarly collections devoted to Reformed theology are but hagiographies born of an all-too-nostalgic gaze into the past. Her biography of Nietzsche is a double hagiography, comic and almost sad in its reflection of her own will to power.
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