Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who gives an aecount of deaths; one who writes or prepares obituary notices.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who gives an account of deaths.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
compiles anecrology .
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Examples
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_Athenæum_ necrologist accorded her half a column of obituary, in which she was described as "this pretty, picaroon woman, whose name can never be omitted from any chronicle of Bavaria."
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham
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Hawthorne has been looked upon as the necrologist of the Puritans, and yet a certain coloring of Puritanism adhered to him to the last.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906
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There may be those who would study the Jamaican Constitution, what there is of it, in the sun, while they might, if they could, read Dante in the shade, and the necrologist in question may be one of them.
The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905
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There may be those who would study the Jamaican Constitution, what there is of it, in the sun, while they might, if they could, read Dante in the shade, and the necrologist in question may be one of them.
The Life of Froude 1894
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Of Mr. Arment a kindly necrologist said that he had seen the Crowd gather in front of the Park Theater in 1825, when the new form of entertainment effected an entrance in the New World.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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Hawthorne has been looked upon as the necrologist of the Puritans, and yet a certain coloring of Puritanism adhered to him to the last.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Frank Preston Stearns 1881
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