1. A hagiography. 2. idealising its subject: said of a biography.
Related:
Hagiography: 1. a book or writing, or an assemblage of these, about the lives of saints. 2. Such books or writings as a field of study.
Example: The book was authorised, not critical, and its intent was somewhat hagiographical.
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Interesting that you should mention this, astrokatastro, as this more literal usage has, in English, been entirely supplanted by the figurative. But «hagiography» retains its literal sense of «biography of [i e, writing about] a saint or saints», and «Hagiographa» is a (little used) term for the Bible....
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