hagiologist

• Persona que escribe biografías de santos o vidas de personas veneradas con un tono reverente o idealizador. También se usa para quien produce relatos hagiográficos o excesivamente elogiosos de figuras notables.

A noun referring to a person who writes a worshipful or idealizing biography, often of saints or revered figures.

1. Author of an idealizing biographyC2formal

   A writer who composes a biography that is excessively admiring or uncritical, often glorifying the subject.

   autor de una biografía idealizada

   • The hagiologist portrayed the king as flawless despite historical evidence of his flaws.
   • Many early saints' lives were written by hagiologists who focused on miracles rather than facts.
   • The biography was criticized for being the work of a hagiologist rather than an objective historian.
   • A skilled hagiologist can make a controversial figure seem saintly.

   Sinónimoshagiographerpanegyrist

   Antónimoscriticmuckraker