单词 | hagiographer |
释义 | hagiographern. 1. A writer of sacred texts; spec. a writer of the Hagiographa, the third of the three canonical divisions of the Hebrew scriptures. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Hebrew scripture > [noun] > Hagiographa > writer of hagiographer1648 1648 J. Goodwin Divine Authority Script. 62 Concerning the Hagiographers we speak of (the Pen-men of the Scriptures,) no men could have gone so farre out of themselves in so savoury and sacred an ingenuity, had not God himself been their guide. 1703 D. Whitby Paraphr. New Test. I. p. v They were Hagiographers, who are supposed to be left to the use of their own words. 1805 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 95 The Jews..denied that Daniel was a prophet, and..ranked him only among the number of their hagiographers. 1954 Catholic Biblical Q. July 348 The everpresent danger of reading into a passage of Sacred Scripture a meaning which is ours and foreign to the mind of the hagiographer. 2017 B. FitzGerald Inspiration & Authority in Middle Ages iv. 125 David was special..in a way that elevated him above both other hagiographers and image-based prophets. 2. A writer of a hagiography, or an account of the life of a saint; a hagiologist. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > literature about > writer of hagiographer1722 hagiologist1795 hagiographist1799 saintologist1885 1722 J. Stevens Monasticon Hibernicum 50 Augustin Macgraidin..was one of the most famous Hagiographers, or Writers of Saints Lives, in Ireland. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia App. 36 [He] by no means assumes that he is an historian because he is a hagiographer. 1980 W. Goffart Barbarians & Romans iii. 97 They were..dragged in chains ot the royal court, probably on the pretext of some capital crime, which the hagiographer does not specify. 2019 E. K. Rowe Black Saints in Early Mod. Global Catholicism v. 171 Almost all hagiographers of black saints included elaborate discussions on the heroic virtue of suffering. 3. Often somewhat depreciative. A writer or producer of biography which idealizes or idolizes its subject. ΚΠ 1889 Morning Post 25 Dec. 6/3 Many who think several other Englishmen..to be quite as interesting as Oliver [Cromwell], must have noticed the void of which Oliver's hagiographer complained. 1989 Times 11 Nov. 38/4 This disposition to favour the winning side should not be mistaken for sycophancy—Ms Bradford is no hagiographer. 2005 P. R. Keefe Chatter vii. 176 Bamford..has gone from being the scourge of the NSA to the agency's hagiographer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1648 |
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