See hagiography on Wiktionary
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"text": "For an obsequious hagiography of [William] Byrd, see L. Wright 1940. For a more critical assessment, see Lockridge 1987, 1992.",
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"ref": "2016, Britta Timm Knudsen, Carsten Stage, Affective Methodologies, page 29:",
"text": "This 'cultivated characteriology' (ibid., p. 117) is one that she suggests has been reduced to the cult of the theorist's personality in many of the hagiographies written about Foucault, missing how he cultivated his ethos or characteriology in order to persuade, seduce, unsettle, question, and so forth.",
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"sense": "study of saints",
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"word": "αγιολογία"
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"sense": "study of saints",
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"word": "hagiografía"
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "srbaxosutʻyun",
"sense": "biography of a saint",
"word": "սրբախոսություն"
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"word": "ჰაგიოგრაფია"
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"code": "bo",
"english": "rnam thar",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"sense": "biography of a saint",
"word": "རྣམ་ཐར"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "biography which expresses reverence",
"word": "吹捧性的傳記"
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"roman": "chuīpěngxìng de zhuànjì",
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"sense": "biography which is uncritically supportive",
"word": "吹捧性的傳記"
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