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hagio-romance
hagio-romance n. 
/ˌhaɡɪə(ʊ)ˈrəʊmans/, /ˌheɪdʒɪə(ʊ)rə(ʊ)ˈmans/, /ˌheɪdʒɪə(ʊ)ˈrəʊmans/, /ˌhæɡioʊˈroʊˌmæns/, /ˌheɪdʒioʊˌroʊˈmæns/, /ˌheɪdʒioʊˈroʊˌmæns/, /ˌheɪɡioʊˌroʊˈmæns/, /ˌheɪɡioʊˈroʊˌmæns/ somewhat rare the romance or mystique associated with a saint's legend.
Brit. /ˌhaɡɪə(ʊ)rə(ʊ)ˈmans/
, /ˌhaɡɪə(ʊ)rə(ʊ)ˈmans//ˌhaɡɪə(ʊ)ˈrəʊmans//ˌheɪdʒɪə(ʊ)rə(ʊ)ˈmans//ˌheɪdʒɪə(ʊ)ˈrəʊmans/U.S. /ˌhæɡioʊˌroʊˈmæns/
, /ˌhæɡioʊˌroʊˈmæns//ˌhæɡioʊˈroʊˌmæns//ˌheɪdʒioʊˌroʊˈmæns//ˌheɪdʒioʊˈroʊˌmæns//ˌheɪɡioʊˌroʊˈmæns//ˌheɪɡioʊˈroʊˌmæns/ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > literature about
hagiography1631
hagiology1780
hagio-romancea1843
saintology1848
hierology1890
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1850) 3rd Ser. 806/2 Growing like saint worship and hagio-romance.
2001 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 14 Jan. 12 However natural it is to mistrust the hagio-romance of the Repentant Sinner..it is too reductive simply to dismiss all religious conversions as ‘brainwashing’.
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- to beat with the spit
- to beat — bells out of
- to beat-burn
- to beatburn
- to become a woman
- to become all the rage
- to become expression
- to become good for
- to become man
- to become the rage
- to become to naught
- to bed in
- to bed out
- to bed up
- to bedocumentize
- to bedoltify
- to beer up
- to befoul one's own nest
- to beg a person
- to beg a person's pardon
- to beg any one for a fool or idiot
- to beg for a fool or idiot
- to beg leave to differ
- to beg off
- to beg pardon