This week’s theme
Words made with combining forms

This week’s words
kleptomania
stenophagous
pantophobia
hagiology
endogenous

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(hag-ee-OL-uh-jee, hay-jee-)

MEANING:

noun: Literature dealing with the lives of saints or other venerated figures.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek hagio- (holy) + -logy (study). Earliest documented use: 1807.

USAGE:

“The artist, apparently more skilled in glass than in hagiology, had placed a halo over the father’s head and canonised him by mistake.”
George Bellairs; The Crime at Halfpenny Bridge; Open Road; 2014.

See more usage examples of hagiology in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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