hagiologist

• Nom désignant une personne qui écrit une biographie respectueuse ou idéalisée, souvent consacrée à des saints ou à des personnalités vénérées.

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.

   Auteur d'une biographie hagiographique

   • 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.

   Synonymeshagiographerpanegyrist

   Antonymescriticmuckraker