hagiographer

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Recent Examples of hagiographer But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France. Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024 William’s hagiographer, the monk Thomas of Monmouth, laid out this unsubstantiated account in excruciating detail, leading to the canonization of the dead boy; like mushrooms after rain, accounts of miracles arose around his tomb. Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020 Hansen is not a hagiographer, and parts of the book are unflattering and depart from official Cuban lore. Michael J. Bustamante, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hagiographer
Noun
  • The museum’s Archive Center began developing the exhibition around 2021, and the collaboration included head archivist Emily Moazami, reference archivist Nathan Sowry and processing archivist Rachel Menyuk.
    Nathan Pugh, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
  • Hiding in plain sight Former Cambridge archivist Sian Collins first spotted the manuscript fragment in 2019 while recataloging estate records from Huntingfield Manor, owned by the Vanneck family of Heveningham, in Suffolk, England.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Parsons has contributed to Bluegrass Unlimited since 1981 and worked with bluegrass artist Curly Seckler, working as his manager, producer and biographer from 2004 to 2017.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 16 July 2025
  • So why bother with a biography of a biographer who spent decades doing what academics usually do: reading, researching, writing, teaching, repeat?
    Eric Bulson, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Newton learned the revelation from genealogist and scholar John Mills, bringing a sense of importance and purpose to the Connecticut native’s life.
    Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2025
  • Image On Friday, Ms. Beeman and other researchers and genealogists continued digging, hoping to identify even more of the pope’s family tree in Louisiana and beyond.
    Rick Rojas, New York Times, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024

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“Hagiographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiographer. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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