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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diarist
noun
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▪ Elderly diarists were rare, and younger diarists not much concerned with observing the old.
▪ He was also a meticulous parliamentary diarist, providing the fullest known account of debates in 1626, 1628, and 1629.
▪ Never heard of him, one of those embarrassing admissions the best of diarists have to make at times.
▪ Nor should we forget our latter-day Darwin: the diarist, novelist or would-be intellectual sitting at home with his word-processor.
▪ Some have later called this traveler and diarist a saint, and saints are not necessarily representative of their sets.
▪ To Baddiel it was solipsistic and showed the limits of a diarist.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diarist

Diarist \Di"a*rist\, n. One who keeps a diary.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
diarist

1818; see diary + -ist.

Wiktionary
diarist

n. One who keeps a diary.

WordNet
diarist

n. someone who keeps a diary or journal [syn: diary keeper, journalist]

Usage examples of "diarist".

It is only the diarist who accomplishes the feat of self-portraiture, and he, without any such end in view, does it unconsciously.

Charles Ward told his father, when they discussed Curwen one winter evening, that he would give much to learn what the mysterious old man had said to the sprightly cleric, but that all diarists agree concerning Dr.

In many cases, diarists have recorded with some awe, Curwen shewed almost the power of a wizard in unearthing family secrets for questionable use.

All that can be told of their discoveries is what Eleazar Smith jotted down in a non too coherent diary, and what other diarists and letter-writers have timidly repeated from the statements which they finally made - and according to which the farm was only the outer shell of some vast and revolting menace, of a scope and depth too profound and intangible for more than shadowy comprehension.

In applying to private families for records thought to be in their possession he made no concealment of his object, and shared the somewhat amused scepticism with which the accounts of the old diarists and letter-writers were regarded.

There have been too few Canadian diarists: however unfittingly, I have determined to fill the gap.

Social diarists like Rory Plantagenet noted their practice, at parties and functions, of releasing each other "lingeringly" as the dynamics of the convivium urged them apart.

Therefore I have revised it, and a substantial portion of what appears in this book is new matter -- though it arises from the ancient and inveterate grievances, enthusiasms and acerbities of the diarist.