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memorialist

American  
[muh-mawr-ee-uh-list, -mohr-] / məˈmɔr i ə lɪst, -ˈmoʊr- /

noun

  1. a person who writes memorials.

  2. a person who writes memoirs.


memorialist British  
/ mɪˈmɔːrɪəlɪst /

noun

  1. a person who writes or presents a memorial

  2. a writer of a memoir or memoirs

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of memorialist

First recorded in 1700–10; memorial + -ist

Example Sentences

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In Brooklyn, N.Y., 1,300 grave markers have been taken from Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, according to memorialist Michael Hirsch.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

That your memorialist is a native of Africa, and has a knowledge of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of that country.

From Slate Jun. 3, 2015

That your memorialist, to his great grief and astonishment, received a letter of dismission from the Honourable Commissioners of the Navy, by your Lordships' orders;

From Slate Jun. 3, 2015

Serge Klarsfeld, the country's most famous Nazi hunter and Holocaust memorialist, expressed his indignation in the name of the Association of Sons and Daughters of Jews Deported from France.

From The Guardian Jan. 31, 2011

In the mind of the reverend memorialist, no doubt, there was the conviction that England would soon lose the meager strip, fifty miles wide, which France might yield.

From The Conquest of New France A chronicle of the colonial wars by Wrong, George McKinnon

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