Timeline for What is an antonym for "hagiography"?
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| Mar 7 at 9:11 | comment | added | mike rodent | I see very clearly indeed how this has or could have antonyms. And your comment comes, strangely, after many plausible suggestions have already been made since 2019. Hagiography, from the Greek, obviously originally meant "writing to describe the life of a saint". The meaning in English has become "writing about someone to represent them as a saint". You fail to see it, but the antonym of this would obviously be "writing about someone to represent them as a sinner". | |
| Mar 6 at 16:54 | comment | added | Lambie | Not every word has an antonyms. I fail to see how this one could. [calumny is not usually pluralized] | |
| Oct 4, 2022 at 22:35 | answer | added | Tuffy | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 4, 2022 at 21:48 | answer | added | Stuart F | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 4, 2022 at 19:39 | comment | added | John Lawler | Demonology could fit into almost any environment where hagiography would. | |
| Oct 4, 2022 at 16:47 | answer | added | Derek Grimmell | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 25, 2019 at 21:35 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 24, 2019 at 14:29 | comment | added | curiousdannii | Most words don't have antonyms. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 12:01 | answer | added | mike rodent | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 4:49 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | When you say the opposite of "something long that praises (and exaggerates)* what do you mean? (1) Something short that praises? (2) Something long that criticizes? (3) Something short that criticizes? Which of the particular aspects (if not all of them) do you want negated? I don't see how your description of The Dark Side of Camelot is an obvious opposite of what you describe in the first sentence. (And saying it's "no better nor no worse than a hagiography" leaves me even more confused, if it's supposed to be its opposite. How does it being no better nor worse affect this? | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 22:40 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 23, 2019 at 22:26 | comment | added | David K Bivins | This is a quick response website! So, what I'm still looking for is a softer acronym for "hagiography". vs. "polemic". | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 22:19 | comment | added | David K Bivins | I apologize, I did respond to a similar question but was not registered and could not find it. "Polemic" is near perfect, nithing in what I saw before comes close. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 22:08 | comment | added | David K Bivins | Yes, I like polemic. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 22:06 | history | edited | Mick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2019 at 22:05 | comment | added | Mick | A polemic, perhaps? | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 22:04 | history | asked | David K Bivins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |