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hagiology

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ha-gi-ol-o-gy
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

literature dealing with the lives of saints

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From hagio- + -logy.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

hagiologies (plural)

Derived Forms

hagiological hagiologist

Frequently Paired Words

hagiography

Questions

What does hagiology mean?
literature dealing with the lives of saints
Where does hagiology come from?
From hagio- + -logy.

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