hagiographer

English

Etymology

From hagiography +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hagiographer (plural hagiographers)

1. Someone who writes the biography of a saint.
2. (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who writes in an excessively flattering and laudatory way about a person (as if that person were a saint).
3. (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)