hagiography

noun

a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)

Roots

hagioshagio- · Greek · holy, saint grapheingraph- · Greek · to write ia-y · Greek · forming nouns

Synonyms for hagiography

hagiologyn biographyn martyrologyadj memoirsn historiographyn legendn

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The word hagiography breaks down into 3 roots of Greek origin: hagio, from Greek hagios (“holy, saint”); graph, from Greek graphein (“to write”); and -y, from Greek ia (“forming nouns”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.