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hagiographical

hagiographical adjective: hagiographic.

Adjective

hagiographical (not comparable)

  1. hagiographic
    • Saladin's prophetic namesake, by any account as obviously an antiwarrior as one can imagine, seems at first too antithetical a character for comparison with the anti-Crusader par excellence, and therein lies the hagiographical dynamic at work.2020, John Renard, Crossing Confessional Boundaries

Origin of hagiographical

From hagiography + -ical.

Questions about hagiographical

What does hagiographical mean?
Hagiographical means hagiographic.
What part of speech is hagiographical?
Hagiographical is an adjective.

Words near hagiographical in the dictionary

  1. Hagiographa
  2. hagiographal
  3. hagiographer
  4. hagiographers
  5. hagiographic
  6. hagiographical
  7. hagiographically
  8. hagiographies
  9. hagiographist
  10. hagiographists
  11. hagiographize

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