hagiographic

comparative more hagiographic · superlative most hagiographic

1. Of or pertaining to hagiography.

   But the stakes are clearly higher than in the hagiographic viewpoint expressed in [Girard, 1971] and a change of syntax (as the one coming from linear logic) may occur from disturbing semantics.

   1987, Jean-Yves Girard, “Linear Logic”, in Theoretical Computer Science, 50, p.15

2. broadlyUncritically reverent; adulating.

   “Chairman Xi is a world leader. His book on governance has sold out in many countries across the world,” Zhong gushed, parroting the unashamedly hagiographic bulletins in which the party news agency Xinhua excels.

   2017 October 14, Tom Phillips, “Chairman Xi crushes dissent but poor believe he’s making China great”, in The Observer