Definition of "anecdotist" []

• One who tells, collects, or publishes anecdotes. (noun)

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• "This Denbigh ancestry recalls a pleasant example of Fielding's wit, preserved in a story told by his son, and recorded in the pages of that voluminous eighteenth-century anecdotist, John Nichols."
• "The pursuit of such identity of incident may the more cheerfully be left to the anecdotist, in that the biographical value of _Amelia_, is far more than incidental."
• "Reverting to my reminiscences -- or rather to what are for myself less interesting portions, for I am a land agent by profession and an anecdotist only by habit -- I remember that an Englishman subsequently a"