Definition of "hagiographer" [ha•gi•og•ra•pher]

• Someone who writes the biography of a saint (noun)
• Someone who writes praising and flattering things about a person (as if that person were a saint) (noun)

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• "Not sure if this is the work of some Jackson family-hired spin-doctor cum hagiographer, but here from Carolyn Kellog in the L.A. Times:"
• "How appropriate of Dan Lyons, the experienced hagiographer of SCO."
• "After his long stretch as an untouchable hero and saint (courtesy of hagiographer R Bolt) it was about time that creep More was taken off his pedestal."