memorialist
Americannoun
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a person who writes or presents a memorial
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a writer of a memoir or memoirs
Etymology
Origin of memorialist
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Opposed to their memorialist passion are people like Nili Bar Sinai, 76, a tough old lady from Be’eri, a much larger kibbutz 12 miles northeast of Nir Oz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
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, 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
The memorialist had no jury-trial within the meaning of the Constitution, and her conviction was therefore erroneous.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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