释义 |
hagiology /ˌhaɡɪˈɒlədʒi /noun [mass noun]Literature dealing with the lives and legends of saints.The hagiology from which he has benefited in the last 50 years suggests that he may well have been right....- He immediately emphasized the theoretical and practical significance of hagiology as a science, as well as the parish priest's book at the first of its kind in our country.
- She succeeded in portraying truthfully - without debunking, but also without hagiology - good men and women.
Derivativeshagiological adjective ...- Loving, non-critical support could reinstate this hagiological chess figure to his former glory and put the royal game back in the media's crosshairs.
- The record of the passion of St. Perpetua, St. Felicity and their companions is one of the greatest hagiological treasures that have come down to us.
- The program included concerts of classical and Byzantine music, meetings of Byzantine choirs inside the church and a hagiological convention.
hagiologist /ˌhaɡɪˈɒlədʒɪst / noun ...- The extravagance of all that the hagiologists claimed for him now seemed to make him a fraud.
- The oldest hagiologists often describe at length the veneration in which they were held, and its manifestations, without indicating the manner in which it began.
- These first two books were attempts to rescue two famous but quite different men from historical falsification, from the hagiologists in one case and from the demonologists in the other.
|