| \hag-ee-OG-ruh-fee, hey-jee-\ | noun
1. the writing and critical study of the lives of the saints; hagiology.
| | Quotes | The characters who populate the Folk Tales … are both peasants, sketched from real life at Yasnaya Polyana, and reflections on the image of medieval saints as passed down in popular hagiography.
-- Andrew Kahn, "Introduction," The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, 2015 | | | | | | | | | | Origin of hagiography | | Hagiography looks as if it should come from Latin hagiographia from Greek hagiographía, but the word does not exist in Latin or Greek. It is formed from the Greek adjective hágios "holy, sacred" and the combining form -graphy, from the verb graphein "to write." It entered English in the early 1800s. | |
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