Definition of "annalist" []

• One who writes annals; a chronicler. (noun)

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• "Anne Roth (annalist) 's status on Monday, 24-Aug-09 21: 58: 27 UTC - Identi. ca"
• "In 2001, when the Swedish Academy awarded Sir Vidia Naipaul the Nobel prize in literature, it described him as the heir to Joseph Conrad: "The annalist of the destinies of empires in the moral sense: what they do to human beings … the memory of what others have forgotten, the history of the vanquished.""
• "A trained annalist, his research for each novel has been rigorous."