annalist

[ an-l-ist ]

noun

1. a chronicler of events, especially yearly ones; historian.

Other Words From

• annal·istic adjective
• annal·isti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of annalist¹

1605–15; annal(s) + -ist, or < French annaliste

Example Sentences

Such works are highly valuable, but they are so to the annalist or historian rather than the ordinary reader.

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The Annalist is unsparing in his condemnation of the attempts made at various times to change them.

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What were the causes of this war, wrote a Hungarian annalist, are not to be ascertained.

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This strange transaction rests on the authority of the contemporary annalist Hoveden.

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The annalist at Margan enters also the year 1210 as a sickly one throughout England.

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