What means adulatory?
admiration
Definition of adulation : extreme or excessive admiration or flattery Celebrities often feed off the adulation of fans, but that acclaim can be fleeting and illusory.—
What were known as hagiographies?
Hagiographies are often about saints. The two halves of hagiography refer to holiness and writing, and it is something written about holy people. Originally, a hagiography was a biography of a saint written without skepticism or criticism. A hagiography idealizes the subject and puts them on a pedestal.
What is the antonyms of alluvial?
▲ Opposite of earthly, terrestrial, worldly, as opposed to heavenly, marine. heavenly. nontemporal. unearthly.
What is the synonym of Oasis?
watering hole, watering place, water hole, spring. Australian gnamma, claypan. 2’a miniature woodland that offers a cool oasis in a hot summer’ refuge, haven, safe haven, retreat, sanctuary, sanctum, shelter, resting place, hiding place, harbour, asylum, hideaway, hideout. hygge.
What is meant by accentuating?
transitive verb. : to make (something) more prominent or noticeable : accent, emphasize With her hair in tight curls that accentuate her pale beauty, she seems lit from within.—
What is the difference between chronicles and hagiographies?
While a chronicle is the historical narration of events in chronological order, a biography is the narration of the discourse of a life, and a hagiography, that of the life of a saint (from Gr. hagios, saint).
What is hagiographic literature?
The term “hagiography”, which literally means “writing about saints”, refers to edifying compositions about the life and deeds of a holy man or woman, and may also be defined as a scholarly discipline that studies saints and the literature related to them.
What is Touled?
Anything that’s tousled is rumpled or disheveled, like your tousled hair when you first get out of bed in the morning. Tousled hair is messy, windblown, or otherwise unkempt. The verb tousle came first—today it means “make untidy,” but originally to tousle was “to handle or push roughly.”