Hagiology

noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    literature dealing with the lives of saints countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints wordnet

Etymology

From hagio- + -logy.

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