Hagiographic biography definition
Hagiographic biography definition
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hagiographynoun
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun hagiography. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
About 0.3occurrences per million words in modern written English
| 1750 | 0.0035 |
| 1760 | 0.0026 |
| 1770 | 0.0029 |
| 1780 | 0.0032 |
| 1790 | 0.0038 |
| 1800 | 0.0051 |
| 1810 | 0.0069 |
| 1820 | 0.0084 |
| 1830 | 0.0094 |
| 1840 | 0.014 |
| 1850 | 0.018 |
| 1860 | 0.019 |
| 1870 | 0.021 |
| 1880 | 0.026 |
| 1890 | 0.027 |
| 1900 | 0.033 |
| 1910 | 0.043 |
| 1920 | 0.056 |
| 1930 | 0.072 |
| 1940 | 0.093 |
| 1950 | 0.11 |
| 1960 | 0.15 |
| 1970 | 0.21 |
| 1980 | 0.27 |
| 1990 | 0.32 |
| 2000 | 0.37 |
| 2010 | 0.41 |
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Earliest known use
mid 1600s
The earliest known use of the noun hagiography is in the mid 1600s.
OED's earliest evidence for hagiography is from 1631, in the writing of Peter Heylyn, Church of England clergyman and hi