hagiographic
/ˈhæɡioʊˌɡɹæfɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to hagiography.
adj
Example Sentences
- "But the stakes are clearly higher than in the hagiographic viewpoint expressed in [Girard, 1971] and a change of syntax (as the one coming from linear logic) may occur from disturbing semantics."
- "“Chairman Xi is a world leader. His book on governance has sold out in many countries across the world,” Zhong gushed, parroting the unashamedly hagiographic bulletins in which the party news agency Xinhua excels."
Etymology
Etymology tree English hagio- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor. French -graphieder. English -graphy English hagiography Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English hagiographic From hagiography + -ic.
Inflected Forms
more hagiographic (comparative)
most hagiographic (superlative)