Annalist Definition

ănə-lĭst
noun
One who writes annals; a chronicler.
American Heritage

A writer of annals.

"The monks ... were the only annalists in those ages." -Hume.
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Noun

Singular:
annalist
Plural:
annalists

Origin of Annalist

  • French annaliste.

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Annalist Sentence Examples

  • Lastly, the annalist is a partisan.

  • One annalist after another quietly adopted the established tradition, as it had been left by his predecessors, without any serious alterations of its main outlines.

  • Besides, his style is that of the driest annalist.

  • He is always worth comparing with the extant English Chronicles; and from 1106 he is an independent annalist, dry but accurate.

  • Otto was also related to the great house of Hohenstaufen, a relationship which gave him access to sources of information usually withheld from the ordinary monastic annalist, and his work is very valuable for the earlier part of the career of Frederick I.

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