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hierology

[ hahy-uh-rol-uh-jee, hahy-rol- ]

noun

  1. literature or learning regarding sacred things.
  2. hagiological literature or learning.


hierology

/ ˌhaɪərəˈlɒdʒɪk; ˌhaɪəˈrɒlədʒɪ /

noun

  1. sacred literature
  2. a biography of a saint
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌ󾱱ˈDZDz, noun
  • hierologic, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ···Dz· [hahy-er-, uh, -, loj, -ik, hahy-r, uh, -], e··Dzi· adjective
  • e·DZo· noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of hierology1

First recorded in 1830–40; hiero- + -logy
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Example Sentences

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Cast against type, Khan sheds his charismatic leading-man persona to play the oblivious, childlike alien who breaks all Indian cultural protocols and hierology.

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Hierology, hī-ėr-ol′o-ji, n. the science of sacred matters, esp. ancient writing and Egyptian inscriptions.—adj.

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But the lives of our saints, independently altogether of the momentous change in human affairs and prospects which they ushered in, have a substantial hold on history, of which neither the classical nor the northern hierology can boast.

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The best critical writers on ancient history have agreed not to throw away the cosmogony and the hierology of Greece.

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In the Nichiren hierology, it is as though the symbolical figures in the Book of Revelation had been deified and worshipped.

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