historian

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They did not regard Virginia, as the historian is apt to do, in the interesting light of an experiment in constitutional liberalism, or conceive of the company as the mother of nations.

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  1. noun A writer, student, or scholar of history.
  2. noun One who writes or compiles a chronological record of events; a chronicler.

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  • Guest speakers from Washington, D.C. will also speak to the class, including the chief historian from the National Parks Service. —  The Journal
  • Applied to history, it prejudges what the historian is allowed to regard as possible or actual. —  Triablogue
  • I know exactly what she was up to - in the sense that what you do as a historian is absorb texts and then try and work out what in that morass of pages is interesting and what provides something that you can work with. —  Westminster Wisdom
  • Trevor Marshall is well known as a historian, but yesterday was his chance to show his athletic skills.
  • I included mine below (though I recommend changing the bit about being a Latin American historian, unless you actually are one). —  Alterdestiny
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  1. Formerly historien; from Old French historien, adjective and n., French historien, from Middle Latin as if *historiaonus, from Latin historia, history: see history.
 

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/hɪsˈtoʊriən/
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