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annalist

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an·nal·ist  (n-lst)
n.
One who writes annals; a chronicler.
annalist
one who chronicles yearly events; a writer of annals.
See also: History
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Noun1.annalist - a historian who writes annals
historian, historiographer - a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
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, and had cut no figure in that revolt of 1463, which the annalists register gravely, under the title of "The sixth trouble of the University.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
In the slight sketch here attempted, the facts, recorded on the grave pages of our New England annalists, have wrought themselves, almost spontaneously, into a sort of allegory.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The medieval chroniclers were mostly mere annalists, brief mechanical recorders of external events, and the few more philosophic historians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries do not attain the first rank.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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