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Jan 29, 2010
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Hagiography (sense 1)
Hagiography (sense 2)
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with Anu Garghagiography
PRONUNCIATION:
(hag-ee-OG-ruh-fee, hay-jee-)
MEANING:
noun:1. A biography of a saint. 2. An uncritical biography, treating its subject with undue reverence. ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek hagio- (holy) + -graphy (writing). A related word is hagiocracy
(a government by holy persons; also a place thus governed).
USAGE:
"There's a whiff of hagiography in the sometimes sympathetic portrayal
of the gang. But then, one man's terrorist..."Tim Walker; The Baader-Meinhof Complex; The Independent (London, UK); Apr 17, 2009. See more usage examples of hagiography in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
When we have exposed the specious reasoning of the hunters' apologists and stripped their sport of its counterfeit legitimacy, the naked brutality of hunting defines itself: killing for the fun of it. -Steve Ruggeri, former hunter and activist (1949-1998)
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