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antibiography en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + biography.

Meanings

1. The history of the unsavory aspects of a person's life.
   • The first problem we have to face in any biography (or antibiography) of Paul is that the primary evidence imposes severe limitations on what we can know, as the Introduction explained. 2012, J. Albert Harrill, Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in their Roman Context, page 23:
   • As are all of us, if that's what you are trying to find out with your little 'antibiography,' shall we say. 2011, Noah Boyd, Last Chance To Die, →ISBN, page 305:
   • The dialectic is also at work within Hogarth's interpretation of his antibiography. 2018, N. Katherine Hayles, Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science, →ISBN:
   • Doctor Zhivago invokes two kinds of images of space and time: those of the biographical novel, with its inside spaces of family stability, and those of the road, the quest - except that here we find a kind of antibiography and anti-quest. 1995, Edith W. Clowes, Doctor Zhivago: A Critical Companion, →ISBN, page 28:

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