Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person who writes memoirs.
  • noun A person who writes or signs a memorial.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who writes a memorial or memorials.
  • noun One who presents a memorial to a legislative or any other body, or to a person.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who writes or signs a memorial.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A writer of memorials.

Etymologies

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memorial +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • That your memorialist is a native of Africa, and has a knowledge of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of that country.

    The Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African Equiano, Olaudah 1789

  • Christians; and your memorialist is the more induced to undertake the same, from the success that has attended the like undertakings when encouraged by the Portuguese through their different settlements on the coast of Africa, and also by the Dutch: both governments encouraging the blacks, who, by their education are qualified to undertake the same, and are found more proper than European clergymen, unacquainted with the language and customs of the country.

    The Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African Equiano, Olaudah 1789

  • THAT your memorialist is a native of Africa, and has a knowledge of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of that country.

    The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. Vol. II. 1745

  • That your memorialist is desirous of returning to Africa as a missionary, if encouraged by your Lordship, in hopes of being able to prevail upon his countrymen to become Christians; and your memorialist is the more induced to undertake the same, from the success that has attended the like undertakings when encouraged by the Portuguese through their different settlements on the coast of Africa, and also by the Dutch: both governments encouraging the blacks, who, by their education are qualified to undertake the same, and are found more proper than European clergymen, unacquainted with the language and customs of the country.

    The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. Vol. II. 1745

  • "THAT your memorialist is a native of Africa, and has a knowledge of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of that country.

    Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race. 1848

  • So I had better get things in their proper order, like a good memorialist, and before describing the events of that lunatic engagement, tell you of the confoundedly unlucky chain of trivial events that took me there.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • That he adds much to the record of social and military history, illumines many curious byways, and confirms modern opinions of his own deplorable character, goes without saying, but his general accuracy where he deals with well-known events and personages, and his transparent honesty, at least as a memorialist, are evidence that the present volume is as trustworthy as those which preceded it.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • As students of those volumes will be aware, his personal character was deplorable, his conduct abandoned, and his talent for mischief apparently inexhaustible; indeed, his one redeeming feature was his unblushing veracity as a memorialist.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Despite occasional straitlaced protests, plays were performed at the Southwark Theatre, built of brick—“a real playhouse,” one memorialist recalled, “albeit a poor, shabby little structure.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Despite occasional straitlaced protests, plays were performed at the Southwark Theatre, built of brick—“a real playhouse,” one memorialist recalled, “albeit a poor, shabby little structure.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

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