Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Literature dealing with the lives of saints.
- noun A collection of sacred writings.
- noun An authoritative list of saints.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That branch of literature which treats of the lives and legends of the saints; the list and legends of the saints, and, by extension, of popular heroes.
- noun A history or description of the sacred writings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
literature dealing with thelives ofsaints
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints
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Examples
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The gifts are not brought by Santa Claus Nicholas who in the Hellenic hagiology is the patron saint of sailors.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Yes, Virginia, Hellenes Have Christmas Traditions Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010
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The gifts are not brought by Santa Claus Nicholas who in the Hellenic hagiology is the patron saint of sailors.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Yes, Virginia, Hellenes Have Christmas Traditions Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010
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The gifts are not brought by Santa Claus Nicholas who in the Hellenic hagiology is the patron saint of sailors.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Yes, Virginia, Hellenes Have Christmas Traditions Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010
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The gifts are not brought by Santa Claus Nicholas who in the Hellenic hagiology is the patron saint of sailors.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Yes, Virginia, Hellenes Have Christmas Traditions Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010
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You might want to expand your hagiology with the holy father.
Archive 2009-03-15 Bas Bleu 2009
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The curious thing is that in that tale the prophet is aided by one of the few women who play much part in the hagiology of Islam.
Greenmantle 2005
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There were uncomfortable saints in Cadfael's hagiology, whom he personally would have consigned to a less reverend status, but whose aggravating rectitude he could not deny.
The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992
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Until fairly recently the history of Catholicism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England was conceived largely in terms of hagiology.
William Byrd and the Catholics Kerman, Joseph 1979
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The Elizabethans did not waste time on detailed discussions of hagiology and doctrine.
We Take Our Stand 1949
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Here the ordinary copies stop in forty-seven volumes, for the evil days of the Jesuits were coming on, and the new literary oligarchy, where Voltaire, Montesquieu, and D'Alembert held sway, had not been propitious to hagiology.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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