hagiographer

English

Etymology

From hagiography +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˌhæɡiˈɑɡɹəfɚ/, /ˌheɪɡi-/, /ˌheɪd͡ʒi-/
(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌhæɡiˈɒɡɹəfə/

Noun

hagiographer (plural hagiographers)

Someone who writes the biography of a saint.
(figuratively, derogatory) Someone who writes in an excessively flattering and laudatory way about a person (as if that person were a saint).
(theology) A writer of any of the Hagiographa․

Related terms

hagiography

Translations

someone who writes the biography of a saint

Armenian: վարքագիր (hy) (varkʻagir)
Asturian: haxógrafu m
Catalan: hagiògraf m
Dutch: hagiograaf (nl) m
Finnish: hagiografi
French: hagiographe (fr) m
Galician: haxiógrafo m
Greek: αγιογράφος (el) m (agiográfos)
Italian: agiografo (it) m
Latin: hagiographus m
Polish: hagiograf (pl) m
Portuguese: hagiógrafo (pt) m
Russian: агио́граф (ru) m (agiógraf), состави́тель жизнеописа́ния святы́х m (sostavítelʹ žizneopisánija svjatýx)
Spanish: hagiógrafo (es) m

a writer of any of the Hagiographa

Armenian: սրբագիր (hy) (srbagir)
French: hagiographe (fr) m

someone who writes in a flattering way about a person

Greek: υμνητής (el) m (ymnitís), υμνήτρια (el) f (ymnítria)