hagiographer

• Auteur de biographies écrites avec une déférence excessive ou une idéalisation, souvent consacrées à la vie des saints ou de figures vénérées.

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.

   Auteur d'une hagiographie

   • 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.

   Synonymeseulogistpanegyrist