Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who writes annals; a chronicler.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of annals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A writer of annals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A writer of
annals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a historian who writes annals
Etymologies
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Examples
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Anne Roth (annalist) 's status on Monday, 24-Aug-09 21: 58: 27 UTC - Identi. ca
Progressives launch new site to help organize on Twitter 2009
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In 2001, when the Swedish Academy awarded Sir Vidia Naipaul the Nobel prize in literature, it described him as the heir to Joseph Conrad: "The annalist of the destinies of empires in the moral sense: what they do to human beings … the memory of what others have forgotten, the history of the vanquished."
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul Aminatta Forna 2010
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So the annalist had other terms to choose from if he didn't want to repeat 'cecidit'; he didn't have to use 'dormitatio' for Iago's death.
Iago Gwynedd Carla 2010
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A trained annalist, his research for each novel has been rigorous.
A life in books: CJ Sansom Sarah Crown 2010
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Owen is an internationally recognized audio forensic annalist and listened to exemplars of the 1970 emergency call and a contemporary recording of Duane Peak repeating the same words.
Framed by the FBI: A dozen reasons the 'Omaha Two' deserve a new trial (6 of 6) 2009
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Comines — I am told you are the annalist of the time — we that desire to have a name in history must speak you fair, for men say your pen hath a sharp point, when you will. —
Quentin Durward 2008
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We may say that three kinds of men write history: the gazetteer or annalist, the statesman, and the philosopher.
Voltaire 2007
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There is a new company annalist as Croaker and the Lady now lead.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: She Is the Darkness - Glen Cook Blue Tyson 2007
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While the children may have acted according to the simplicity of their nature and were not considered legally or morally responsible for their actions, the annalist implied that adults should have known better.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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The historiographer is more of the simple annalist, while the historian seems to have a more open field for reflection and eloquence.
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