What's the difference between hagiographer and hagiographist?
Hagiographer
Definition:
(n.) One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies ( Heston Blumenthal ) or bronze-moulded pasta ( Jamie Oliver ) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers.
(2) Dance music supergroup Swedish House Mafia also present their own – potentially deeply hagiographic – doc following their split last year, which "depicts the EDM scene at its peak as well as telling a story of friendship and success" and follows on from an earlier doc, Take One .
(3) Admittedly, Helen Mirren did a wonderful PR job for the Queen, but often even the most hagiographic screen treatments can end up diminishing rather than dignifying their subjects.
(4) Given how frequently politicians use ghostwriters to churn out hagiographic campaign books, Feinman Todd's complaint implicitly raised a question: is it ethical to pass off the work of someone else as your own?
(5) While the hagiographic coverage of Trump is over, there is not negative coverage of the US president in the way there was of Barack Obama and his administration.
(6) Even the most hagiographic profiles called him aloof, calculating and bent on getting results.
(7) A ccording to religious tradition Saint George was martyred by the Roman emperor Diocletian on 23 April 303, although Edmund Gibbon disputed the hagiographic account of noble sacrifice and presented the historical George as an ambitious bishop from Cappadocia.