saintologyn.
Hagiology.
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hagiology1780
hagio-romancea1843
saintology1848
hierology1890
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 63 184 Do you know that we have historical painters for modern saintology.
1892 Public Opinion (N.Y.) 5 Nov. The angelology and the saintology of orthodoxy.
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sainˈtologist n. a hagiologist.
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hagiologist1795
hagiographist1799
saintologist1885
1885 D. Beveridge Culross & Tulliallan I. ii. 65 The later saintologists had a rage for burying all their great saints together.
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