hagiographic

Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to hagiography.

(by extension) Uncritically reverent; adulating.

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Apart from that, most is derived from Hasidic hagiographic accounts. Source: Internet

Chesterton (1924), pp. 40–41 According to the hagiographic legend, thereafter he began to avoid the sports and the feasts of his former companions. Source: Internet

Biography as a hagiographic process According to John McRae, Bodhidharma has been the subject of a hagiographic process which served the needs of Chan Buddhism. Source: Internet

The film satirizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal bands, as well as the hagiographic tendencies of rockumentaries of the time. Source: Internet

Sun, 1982, 20 and 21 Birth In one hagiographic account, while Li Bai's mother was pregnant with him, she had a dream of a great white star falling from heaven. Source: Internet

Though much of this material is heavily hagiographic, it has been an important source for historians seeking to reconstruct Catherine's life. Source: Internet

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