hagiographer

• Persona que escribe biografías con excesiva reverencia o idealización, a menudo sobre vidas de santos; autor de hagiografías.

A noun referring to a writer of biographies that treat their subject with excessive reverence or idealization, often associated with saints' lives.

1. Author of a worshipful biographyC2formal

   A writer who composes a biography that is excessively admiring or idealizes its subject, often a saint or religious figure.

   Autor de una biografía hagiográfica

   • The hagiographer portrayed the monk as a flawless being.
   • Medieval hagiographers often included miraculous events in their accounts.
   • Critics accused the biographer of being a mere hagiographer rather than an objective historian.

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